From Colonial From
Territories
Hong Kong Chinese
123
From Malaya.
92
"Others" who were
pupils in Hong
Kong Schools:
59
From Canada and
Australia
From the Dutch
East Indies,
Philippines etc.
From the China
mainland
274
Dominions
16
16
For the year 1941 the figures were:
398
23
From
Foreign Territories.
38
122
22
160
= Total 450
229
= Total 650
For the year 1950, the estimated figures are:
390
30
260 = Total 680
There
3.
broadly spent in
Further proposals are already existing based on the
conception of a fifty-fifty division of expenditure over
next ten years as between United Kingdom funds (other than
C.D. and W.) and Hong Kong and Colonial Development funds.
As the period under consideration is extended, the proportion
of His Majesty's Government's contribution to the aggregate
expenditure becomes progressively smaller.
The proposals contemplate a considerable increase in the
This increase is to
liability of the Hong Kong Government.
even
some extent inevitable since; were it decided merely to
re-establish the University on the pre-war bases the question
of its restoration and maintenance would still arise, the
University's income being insufficient to meet the cost of
maintenance eines before the war, and if it were decided to
disolve the University, the Hong Kong Government would be
faced with total financial responsibility for higher education
in the Colony and would lose the benefit of the Universitel endowments.