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of the Colony.
This may give the Reader the opportunity
of doing a really useful piece of historical work.
4.
Reader in the University is the name applied to
the teacher who is in charge of a department of study
for which it has not yet been possible to provide a
Chair. The Reader will be in charge of the History
Department of the Faculty of Arts and will be ex-officio
a member of the Faculty of Arts and the Senate.
5.
There are at the moment 128 students in the
Faculty of Arts and of these 90 are men and 38 are women.
Fifty-eight of these students are reading History; 41
men and 17 women. The total number of students in the
University's three Faculties (Medicine, Engineering,
Arts) is at the moment 360 of whom, 38 are women.
6.
There are two Readers in the University of
Hong Kong, viz., the Reader in History and the Reader in
Biology, and the scale of salaries which was fixed for
Readers in 1923 was £600 per annum rising by £25 annually
to £750. When this scale was sanctioned it was arranged
that when a member of the University to whom a sterling
salary has been assigned is in the Colony (and he is held
to be in the Colony except when he is on furlough) he
should be paid in dollars at the average current rate of
exchange for the month as determined by the Colonial
or
Treasurer, at 2/-d whichever is less. In 1929, His
Excellency the Governor referred to a Committee the general
conditions of service under which the Teaching and
Executive Staffs of the University were working, and this
committee recommended for a Reader a salary of £850 a
year, rising by £50 annually to £1,100. Thi recommenda-
tion, which was made on the basis of a 2/-d dollar, was
accepted by the Council and the Court of the University
in December 1929 and an application was subsequently
made to Government for an additional grant of 200,000
dollars