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XI. Paragraph 29.

XII. Paragraph 42.

Professor C. A. Middleton Smith spoke

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against and the Vice-Chancellor in support

of the motion.

Resolved (nem. con) that the Court

gratefully acknowledges the assistance

given by the Public Works Department of the

Colony in the matter of postgraduate

apprenticeships, and that Government be

asked to institute a cadre of locally

appointed assistant Engineers to be

recruited in the main from the Graduates

of Hong Kong University by selection after

a period of apprenticeship in the Public

Works Department.

Resolved (nem.con)

(i) that difficulties with regard to

the employment of doctors trained in the

University can best be met by the

institution of a scholarship scheme whereby

more students are attracted from China

and after graduation, are induced to

return there; and

(ii) that a Department of Preventive

Medicine should be instituted in the

University, and that one of its important

functions should be social hygiene

propaganda.

XIII. Paragraph 47.

Resolved (nem.con) that the Court is of

opinion that the present relations existing.

between the Clinical Professors and the

Government Medical Service are satisfactory

and that the system whereby the Clinical

Professors are in the service of the

University and not in Government Services

should be maintained, but that this opinion

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