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the Committee's proposals which would assist him in reaching a decision and which could accompany his letter to Mr. Bevin. See minute of 6th September).
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In broad terms Mr. Caine thought that the expenditure involved in the Committee's recommendation should be divided roughly between Colonial sources and other (Imperial) sources and that the greater part of the recurrent expenditure should fall on Hong Kong while capital expenditure should be met from a Colonial Development and Welfare allocation and from a special grant. Mr. Caine considered that the Hong Kong Government contribution should be at least three-quarters of the total annual expenditure required over and above the University's income and that there should be no difficulty in doubling the current contribution of £30,000 per annum. On the question of whether, if the local
Sows Government expenditure on education were going to be
increased, primary education and need a stronger claim, Mr. Caine thought the expenditure on primary education in Hong Kong could be almost limitless and that there was a case for putting higher education first in order that education might permeate downwards.
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4. On the proposal in the last paragraph of Mr. Mayle's minute of 12th September that part of the capital costs should be met from voluntary subscriptions, Mr. Caine agreed with Mr. Sloss that there was little or no prospect of getting the support of wealthy Chinese in the Colony at present but that in a few years time, if and when the future of the Colony is secure and the University has been re-established on a firmer foundation, the proposal might be reconsidered.
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Other possible sources of capital were discussed. Mr. Cox said that the Rhodes Trustees might be approached with the suggestion that they should endow a Chair although he was not hopeful of the result. Mr. Sloss said that Dr. Leighton Smart, whom he knew well, took a friendly interest in Hong Kong University and that when he went out to the Far East he would propose to see the American Ambassador with a view to the possibility of Chairs being endowed by the Rockfellow Foundation and for the Carnegie Trust.
6. Since our meeting on the 24th September Mr.Sloss has sent me two notes (75) and (76). His views as to the probable numbers of students who will come come from Malaya after the establishment of a Malayan University are a little surprising (Page 2 of 75) since neither Mr. Cox nor I remember that he made these points during the Committee's discussions. If his view is accepted (and I
personally find his arguments convincing) the decrease of students from Malaya will not be considerable as is suggested in Paragraph 12 of the Committee's Report.
The analysis of the domicile of students given in 75 is also revealing. The figures are broken up in paragraph 2 of the Memorandum so as to show students (a) domiciled in Hong Kong, (b) domiciled
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