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Colonial offics,
Downing Street, 8.W.1.
17th Angust, 1946.
In telegram No.583 of the 6th of July you asked what progress was being ende by the Committee set up by the Secretary of State to consider the future of Hong Kong University. Tim Gozittee's report is being printed and a copy will, of course, be sent to you formally, after it has been subraitéed to the Secretary of Stats, but meemhile you may like to have the enclosed advance proof copy. For reasons which will, I am mure, be clear to you on reading it, the report must, for the present at least, be
garded as confidential.
B. You are, I think, already familiar with the broad recomendations which the Committee MAILO† makej namely that they do not consider the needs of the Colony alene justify the maintenance of a University, but that they do believe that a first-class University might perform a very valuable function in connection with our relations with China and the peoples of the Far East. They therefore recommend that the University should be re-established for this purpose in mich a way an worthily to represent British scholarship and the British my of life. Thay
stimate that the re-establishment of the University appropriate soɛls will call for an expendi ture appraxientaly £1,000,000 capital and 233,000 mally from sources other than those now available
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BIR MARK YOURD, 0.0.E.Q.
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