No
359.
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Sir,
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Ref 10 NOV IT
HONGKONG.
GOVERNMENT HOUSE,
17th. October, 1911.
I have the honour to request your
authority for the annual insertion of a sum of $9,000 in the Estimates of this Colony to maintain a professorship in the University of Hongkong. I have provisionally included that sum in the Estimates for next year, as the Unofficial Members of Legislative Council have informed me that they are in favour of the vote.
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In the event of your approval I would venture further to request that His Majesty the King may be graciously pleased to permit this professorship to be styled a "Regius Professorship", a title verbally suggested to me by your predecessor Lord Crewe, who added that he would probably not object to the inclusion of a sum in the Estimates for this purpose. I shall in my speech introducing the Estimates on 19th. instant explain fully the reasons for proposing this vote, and I would venture to suggest that your reply should be deferred pending the receipt of my Despatch covering the Estimates.
I have the honour to be,
Sir,
Your most obedient, humble servant,
Mangar
Governor,&c..
THE RIGHT HONOURABLE
LEWIS ARCOURT, M.P..
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