4. Housing of students and staff had ceased to be adequate. A sum of £15,000 might easily be required to repair the damage to hostels, houses and the Students' Union building. The University had a project for additional staff quarters to cost about £20,000. To house the additional staff and students of the projected University would cost at least three
A small sum of perhaps times that amount, i.e. £60,000. £3,000 would suffice for the repair of the general and Chinese Libraries. The Hall of the University was very badly damaged. At some future date it may be possible to persuade a local benefactor to build a Hall which may not be an affront to the bluntest aesthetic sense.
5. The sums stated below for repairs are hardly more than guesses based on the cost of typhoon-damage repairs before the war:-
Repairs to buildings and re-equipment of existing laboratories.
Buildings:
Arts and Administrative
Buildings..
Science.
Medical.
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Engineering.
Libraries.
..
Hostels and Houses
£15,000 £ 5,000 £8,000 £ 5,000
£ 3,000 £10,000
£46,000
Re-equipment of Laboratories:
Chemistry, Physics,
Botany, Zoology & Biology Medical.
£35,000
£25,000
Civil Engineering and
Architecture,
say..
£10,000
£70,000
Of this amount probably about £65,000 would be required whatever the organisation for Higher Education is to bɛ. It may well be that £130,000 would be required even if the proposal were that the University should be replaced by institutions of a lower status serving only local needs.
By great gɔù fortune the Libraries are nearly intact and no large capital expenditure on books is called for,
New Buildings for a developed University.
The plan of the 1940 Committee demands a rebuilding of a great 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 end 10 years. This would provide for the Arts and Administration accommodation, additional Science laboratories, new Medical and Engineering buildings, new Halls of Residence, Students' Union,
in all, for well over two and for staff quarters, that is to say,
The new buildings will thirds of the University's accommodation. have to be of four floors and therefore, on the steep hillside, will have to be very carefully sited. and filling will be necessary and the walls will be considerable charge.
A great deal of cutting cost of heavy retaining
One, probably two streams
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