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Mr. Hampton Ross in London was left for settlement
by the University Council when reconstituted in
Hong Kong.
It was agreed that a notification should be issued
in the United Kingdom and in Hong Kong calling for
applications for lectureships in Chemistry
Mathematics, History and Biology (Botany and
Zoology) and for a junior lectureship in English:
the appointments to be in the first instance for three years and at salaries for lecturers f
£550-25-600 and for the junior lecturer £500-20-54C
a year together with a cost of living allowance
based on the scale that may be paid by the
Government of Hong Kong to officers on like terms
of service. The normal arrangements for passages
and provident fund payments will hold in all cases.
The Committee agreed that Mr. Sloss should
orders for apparatus and equipment immediately
required to an amount of say £30,000.
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The Committee agreed to the appointment of
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Mr. G.B. Endacott to a History Lectureship in the
University, at a starting salary of not less than
£700.
The Committee agreed that Mr. Morse should act as
Treasurer with full authority to sign for and on
behalf of University in Hong Kong.
It was agreed that the Committee had exceeded its powers
in sanctioning approval of expenditure of an amount of
H.K. $350,000, the approval having been telegraphed to the
Governor of Hong Kong on the 27th August, 1946. It was
agreed that the attention of the Governor and of the
University Interim Committee in Hong Kong should be drawn
to this poition with the recommendation that it might await
sanction by the University Council when reconstituted or
alternatively that it might be regarded as a provisional
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