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funds for the University, but in view of the
-principle of the scheme but to the elabora-
tion of its details.
3. I gladly approve your proposal
that the Government of Hong Kong should
provide the land for the new University,
and I agree that the site which you describe
should be utilized for the purpose.
4. I hope that the community of
Hong Kong will freely respond to the appeal
for funds,
that the Chinese will show
their sense of the advantages which the new
University will give them by contributing
liberally to its endowment, and that the
scheme will be carried to completion as it
has been begun by the aid of private muni-
ficence and public spirit.
You suggest in the closing paragraph of
your despatch that His Majesty's Government
should assist in providing the necessary
funds
carry calls upon the Imperial Exchequer I
fear that I could not with any prospect of
success invite the Lords Commissioners of the
Treasury to ask Parliament for a contribution.
I have, etc.,