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Secretary of State.
9. July.
DRAFT.
2 DRAFT. S.O.LETTER
J. SIR WILLIAM HORNELL, C.I.E,
C/O NATIONAL BANK OF INDIA, 26 BISHOPSGATE, E.C.2.
1.
FOR MR. GENT'S SIGNATURE
Dear Hornell
SIR THOMAS SOUTHORN, K.C.M.G.,.arr
K.B.E.
COLONIAL OFFICE.
lop I file
Draft D. in frent
of (20)
FURTHER ACTION.
It has been decided that
be
arrangements should made for the
issue of an Order-in-Council to
establish an emergency authority
empowered to confer degrees in medicine
of the University of Hong Kong until
such time as the Senate of the
University is able to re-convene in
the Colony. I enclose a copy of the
draft Order-in-Council for your
information.
The purpose of arranging for the
grant of such degrees is in order that
those medical students whose studies
in Hong Kong were interrupted by the war
and who eventually graduated at
Universities in free China may be
entitled to be registered for practice
in Hong Kong at the earliest possible
moment after the liberation of the
Colony. The shortage of doctors is and
will be serious and we are anxious that
no qualified man should be lost to us
through technical difficulties.
Degrees