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Encl. No. 3.
REPORT OF THE UNIVERSITY COMMITTEE.
COURTS OF JUSTICE,
Hong Kong, November 30th, 1929
Sir,
The Committee appointed by Your Excellency, as Chancellor of the University of Hong Kong, by your letter of the 23rd September, 1929, to investigate the general con- ditions of service under which the Teaching and Executive Staffs of the University are working, with special reference to:---
(a) Salaries;
(b) Agreements;
(c) Leave conditions;
(d) Provision of passage allowances;
(e) Provision of residences or residential allowances;
(f) Superannuation;
(g) Exchange or compensatory allowances;
(h) General allowances, such as the provision of free telephones, water sup-
ply, electric light and general services; and
(i) Private consulting practice;
have the honour to report as follows:-
General.
1. The Committee have held six meetings. At four of these oral evidence was taken and sixteen witnesses, representing each grade of the Teaching and Executive Staffs of the University, attended and were examined by us.
2. We have had before us Reports from Sub-Committees of the Council and Senate and from the Association of University Teachers on the subject of the conditions of service under the University, and have also received written statements from several members of the Staffs; and to these reports and statements, as well as to the oral evid- ence, we have given our most careful attention.
3. A preliminary question had to be decided by us as to the persons who were in- cluded within the scope of our Enquiry. In Your Excellency's letter of the 23rd September, 1929, above mentioned, is this passage :--
"The scope of the enquiry will be restricted to the conditions of service of
the Vice Chancellor, Registr ar, the Professors, Readers, Lecturers, Tutors.
Assistants and Demonstrators of the University.
The Clerks, Mechanics and Artisans employed in the University workshops and the coolies who work in the laboratories and other buildings are excluded from the scope of this enquiry, as also are the terms on which temporary and part-time teachers and other temporary employees of the University are engaged"
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