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Repairs to buildings and re-equipment of existing laboratories.
Buildings:
Arts, Administration and
Students' Union Buildings.
Science.
Medical...
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Engineering.........
Libraries.
Hostels and Houses..
£15,000
£ 5,000
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Laboratories: Chemistry, Physics, Botany,
Zoology. Medical. Engineering..
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£ 3,000
£10,000
£46,000
£35,000
£25,000
£10,000
£70,000
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The Libraries alone escaped the hands of looters and though new ex- penditure will be necessary, it will not be used for the replacement of books lost or destroyed.
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New Buildings for a developed University. The plan of the 1940 Committee demands a rebuilding of the greater part of the existing University and for this we have set down a general sum, based on the estimates of the West Indies Committee of £1 million pounds to be spent over a period of between 7 and 10 years. This would provide for the Arts and Administration accommodation, additional Science laboratories, new Medical and Engineering buildings, additional Halls of Residence, a new Students' Union, and additional staff quarters, that is to say, in all, for well over two thirds of the University's accommodation. The new buildings will have to be of four floors and therefore, on the steep hillside, will have to be very carefully sited, A great deal of cutting and filling will be necessary and the cost of heavy retaining walls will be a considerable charge. One, probably two, streams will have to be diverted. In the present uncertainty we have set down a large total cost. But if the estimate is based on the pre-war ccrt of the Science building completed in 1941 and ✅ provision made for a seventy-five percent increase in the average
cost of building in the period between the third and the tenth year after the re-opening of the University the total cost of buildings and work on the site might be put at about £600,000. The sum ought to provide fully twice the present teaching and residential accommodation.
7. The cost of the repair of buildings, of re-equiping laboratories, and of replacement of a large part of the existing buildings by the end of ten years after the resumption of University work, of an increase of residence for students and members of the staff (during the same period of years), may be reckoned at between £730,00 and £1,130,000.
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8. Staff. The salary scales of the Irvine Committee have been adopted as a basis for an estimate under this head. We favour a proposal of that Committee, that His Majesty's Government be asked, in place of making a grant to pay the salaries of a professors, to endow certain "basic professorships", to give the University a measure of protection against the not infrequent sudden fctuations in Colonial resources. We suggest that the basic professorships for Hong Kong would be in English, Chinese, Mathematics, Chemistry, Physics, Social bus science, and Physiology. An initial grant of £350,000 would be required to achieve this end.
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The total of the non-recurring grant would then become a um between £1,186,000 and £1,586,000, but of this sum between £600,000 and £1 million would be paid, i instalments between the fourth and tenth year after the University is restarted.
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Recurring costs of staff on the Irvine Report scale, and assuming that endowments of professorships are made, are shown in the following
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