approximately £1,000,000 capital and £85,000
annually from sources other than those now available
to the University.
3.
If this recommendation in favour of the
re-establishment of the University is approved,
there will, I think, be a good case for confining
Financine
Hong Kong's responsibility for expenditure involved, >oth capital and recurrent, (to a small proportion
nd for applying for assistance under the Colonial
ñ evelopment and Welfare Act to meet Hong Kong's
hare. The balance would, in those circumstances,
Lave to come from U.K. funds, subject to the possibility
f one or more of the Dominions making contributions.
his is certainly only a possibility at the moment
ра nd will probably depend very largely on whether it
s decided, as a matter of policy, to invite the
bllaboration of the Dominion Governments.
The main
hul than
which can be said the agend
to wal
he was in mis expect of
here people of the Cobry.
There and he wo warm why
an
application sad not he
made under the C.DOW All for assistance meeting long ling's The cost bot Shaw of
apital remment
The decision on this/recommendation/will. Brouss herefore, depend to a great extent on the Foreign
ffice and Treasury. We are advising the Secretary
b. State to give the recommendation his unqualified
apport in sending the report to Mr. Boving we are
Red precis fusent he have, however, some duty of t -advising him to reserve our position on the first
Theyo
mendation of the Committee, namely that the needs
he Colony alone do not justify the maintenance of
University. It is arguable that with a population
a million or more there is, in fact, justification
þr a University or some other institution for the
urpose of providing for higher education, and I believe
hat you yourself were not inclined to accept the
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ittee's view.
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prant
We shall no doubt be consulting
abuul ch
bu officially on this point later on, if the Committee's
Fund. ber
her recommendation is rejected. We are seserdingly
Byesting that, if Mr. Bevin agrees, there should be joint Colonial Office and Foreign Office submission
the Chancellor in favour of the acceptance of the
is mein recrimendatim
Committee's
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