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DRAFT. S.0.LETTER
A. MORSE, ESQ., .B.E.,
HONG KONG AND SHANGHAI BANKING
CORPORATION,
9 GRACECHURCH STREET, E.C.3.
Draft D. in front of (20)
FURTHER ACTION.
Please
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4 crête caprè
16 evélosure
June, 1945
6.7.
FOR MR. GENT'S SIGNATURE
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My dear Morse,
now practically
We have antidot concluded the
arrangements for establishing by
Order-in-Council an Emergency Committee
to grant Hong Kong medical degrees.
I enclose a copy of the draft Order-in-
Council for your information.
As you know 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 x through technical difficulties.
Degrees conferred by this Emergency Committee (to be known as "The University of Hong Kong Medical Degrees Emergency Committee") will have the same validity
in Hong Kong as if they had been
conferred at a congregation of the whole
University
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