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influential and representative body to act as
Advisory Committee. It would be possible to endow
such a body with statutory powers by Order in Council
to act in the name of the University. It seems to
us,
however, unnecessary to take this step and we
would hope that the members of such a Committee,
sponsored by the Colonial Office, would be prepared
to act in the faith that their actions will be
ratified by the University Authorities on the liberation
of Hong Kong.
One of the first functions of this Committee
will be to decide what full time staff will be
required to assist them.
planning staff should be housed in the Colonial Office
at Park Street, where is also the embryo Government of
Hong Kong (the Hong Kong Planning Unit), and that they
should study the problems involved and make
Our conception is that this in close touch with
recommendations to the Advisory Committee in regard
to such matters as the assembling of staff at different
stages, the collection of equipment and the priorities
to be given to the re-establishment of the various
faculties.
The Committee itself might be expected to advise on
the disposal of University funds, and, in this connection,
it is hoped that the advice and experience of Mr. A. Morse
would be available, as a member of the Committee. It would
-teren
also, we anticipate, frame a short policy, bearing in mind
the various proposals and suggestions which have from time
to time been put forward for consideration and which would
to the Commn shee be available. The proposal is that the Committee should
number seven in all, including Mr. Christopher Cox,
Education Adviser to the Secretary of State for the Colonies,
Dr. Kauntze. Medical Adviser to the Secretary of State, and
Mr N. L. Smith, late Colonial Secretary, Hong Kong, and now
working with
member of the Hong Kong Planning Unit.
We very much hope that you will find it possible to
help