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The Commission's report was never published nor was a copy ever sent to the University. A Finance Committee was set up, the University Ordinance being so revised as to make expenditure without the previous approval of the Finance Committee an infringement of the statute. The University's over- draft was paid off by Government. The first round was over, and the University started on a new phase, but the annual Government grant remained at $50,000.
He In 1919 Sir Charles Eliot became British Ambassador in Tokyo. had left Hong Kong in 1918 to become High Commissioner in Siberia and he did not resign the Vice-Chancellorship until he had accepted the Tokyo Embassy. Dr. Gregory Paul Jordan acted as Vice-Chancellor from 1918 to 1921 when Sir William Brunyate who had previously been Financial Adviser in Cairo was ap- pointed to the post. Sir William Brunyate resigned and left Hong Kong in Sir Charles Eliot died February 1924. Dr. Jordan died on 4th December, 1922.
at sea on the 16th March, 1981.
Sir William Brunyate reorganised the financial returns of the University and it was he who conducted with the Rockefeller Foundation the negotiations which ended in the Foundation endowing the three clinical chairs of surgery. medicine and obstetrics and gynaecology. On the basis of a gift of $250,000 from Sir Paul Chater, Sir William was able to initiate, as from 1925, the graded scales of pay for the professors, readers, and lecturers of the University which remained in force until the end of 1982. In 1921 Messrs. John Swire & Sons gave $100,000 to form an endowment for the benefit of the Engineering Faculty. The same year Sir Robert Ho Tung contributed $100,000 for the erection of a workshop for the Engineering Faculty. The Ho Tung Workshop was com- pleted in 1925.
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SIR WILLIAM BRUNYATE, K.C.M.G.. LL.D. Vice-Chancellor (1921-1924).
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