Copy.
No. 327.
BY AIR MAIL.
Enclosure No. 1.
Aurd.
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Enclosure No. 2.
Sir,
RECEIVED
23 JUN 1939
Government House,
Hong Kong, 21st May, 1936.
0.0.
C. O. RECY
I have the honour to forward a copy of a
resolution passed by the Court of the University of
Hong Kong at a session held on the 30th April, 1936,
and to request that it may be humbly submitted through
the proper channels to His Majesty the King.
2.
Neither the Government nor the University
possesses any record of the procedure whereby His late
Majesty King George the Fifth was petitioned to become
Patron of the University. It is believed, however, that
His late Majesty's consent was obtained personally by
Sir Frederick (now Lord) Lugard in 1911.
3.
The annual calendars of the University are
always prefaced by a full page bearing the words
PATRON:
HIS MAJESTY THE KING.."
and the Royal Patronage has been similarly proclaimed for
many years on all programmes of ceremony. There is no
need for me to expatiate on the pride that has been taken
by the Students in this high privilege of their University,
nor on its effect upon the prestige in China of the most
Eastern of British seats of learning. I should horever
explain that under section 2 of Ordinance 10 of 1911 (of
which a copy is enclosed) the position which it was
originally
THE RIGHT HONOURABLE
J. H. THOMAS, M.P.,
&C.,
&C.,
&c.
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