No. 143
CO
10759
Bee?
Government Ilouse,
405
Hongkong 18th. April, 1911.
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Enclosure,
Sir,
I have the honour to forward for
your consideration a Petition from 36 gentlemen of this
Colony (half of whom are Medical men) praying you to advise
His Majesty to disallow that part of Section 12 and
Statute
9 of the University Ordinance which includes the Director of
Education as a Member of the Senate. I count myself fortun-
-ate that in a Bill which has met with such keen a criti-
-cism from the 18 Medical men who form the Senate of the
College of Medicine, the sole matter to which exception has
been taken is one of such comparative unimportance. My
endeavours to secure unanimity have involved the exercise of
much patience and compromise, but as regards this particular
point I informed the College of Medicine (at a meeting of
the Court and Senate which as Patron I convoked) that as it
did not in any especial way concern the College of Medicine
as such, I thought it right to leave the matter to the
decision
$RIGHT HONOURABLE
LAWIS HARCOURT, M.P..
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