INTRODUCTION.
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In October 1930, His Excellency the Governor appointed
a Committee to consider "the possibility of increasing
the facilities for practical technical education (in Hong
the
Kong) and/feasibility of establishing a Trade School."
The Committee's Report, which for convenience is
hereinafter referred to as "The Government Report"(G.R.)
was submitted to the Governor in June, 1931, over the
signatures of Sir William Hornell, Mr. R. M. Dyer,
Mr. G. P. de Martin,
Dr. S. W. Tso,
Mr. T. H. R. Shaw,
Mr. T. N. Chau, and Mr. E. R. Price (Secy).
This Government Report dealt in 119 numbered para-
graphs with the many aspects and complex problems of
technical and industrial education in the Colony. Fifty
of these paragraphs made references, of various degrees
of importance, to the University, mainly to the Faculty
of Engineering. Some of the references were purely
descriptive, some were critical, some were defensive,
and some made specific recommendations for future action.
The Senate found itself faced with two problems:-
(I)
that some members of the teaching staff of the
University regarded the Government Report as
controversial, and, in certain sections, as
unfair to the University.
(II) that the University was apparently expected
by Government to formulate and announce some
Policy with reference to technical education
in the Colony.
At the meeting held on February 25th, 1932, the
Senate, after lengthy and lively discussion, referred
its problems to a Sub-Committee consisting of Professors
F.A.Redmond, G.T.Byrne, and W.Brown.
The terms of
P.T.O.