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The Hon. Colonial Secretary,
Hongkong.
sir.
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University of Hongkong,
23rd June, 1922;
I am instructed to ask you if you will be good enough to invite the Board of Education in London through the Colonial Office to appoint a Professor of Medicine for this University to occupy the Chair of Medicine which has recently been endowed here by the Rockefeller Foundation. The Board of Education should be requested to co-opt with itself Dr. T. R. Elliott of University College Hospital and Dr. F. B. Fraser, of St. Bartholomew's Hospital, London, in making this appointment.
The Board should also be requested to insert an advertisement giving particulars of the post for four successive weeks in the "British Medical Journal" and in the "Lancet":
In view of the fact that the Professor thus appointed will have to work in close co-operation with the authorities at the Government Civil Hospital, it seems very desirable that the Professor appointed should be of British and not of Oriental nationality:
The new Professor should endeavour to reach Hongkong not later than January 1st, 1923.
The salary attached to this Chair is £800 per annum rising by annual increments of £25 to £1,000 per annum, payable while in the Colony at the rate of 2/- to the dollar. In addition, unfurnished quarters or house allowance will be provided. The University also provides a first-class passage (P and 0) from London to Hongkong, and will pay half sterling