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Action towards an early re-opening of the University.
The Secretary of State for the Colonies appointed members to The Hong Kong University Provisional Powers Committee, authorised by order in Council to deal with immediately important University matters till the time at which the proper authorities of the University can fulfil their functions. Towards arranging for the early resumption of higher studios in Hong Kong it has taken the action indicated below.
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Buildings: The Civil Affairs Administration in Hong Kong has undertaken to push forward as rapidly as possible with the work of restoring buildings. The Committee asked that high priority should be given to the repair and refitting of the elementary Science laboratories, of the medical laboratories, of part of the class rooms in the int building, of an office and of as much as possible of residences for student's and staff.
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Libraries: Nothing was necessary here except the separation away from the University stocks of the large numbers of books from other places which were gathered at the library for safe keeping.
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Laboratory equipment: English manufacturers of laboratory equipment have been accommodating to a degree beyond earlier anticipation. It is oxpected that equipment for the elementary sciences will be installed & d ready for use by October of this year, and that equipment for the Medical and ngineering laboratories will follow i month or two later.
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Staff: Already a few members of the University staff are in Hong Kong, the professor of Gynaecology with whom are associated in certain refresher courses now bein; given, officiating professors of Surgery and Medicine: senior lecturer in Physics working in theCivil Affairs Administration but to be released as soon as he is required. The Registrar and the Professors of English and Economics have made preparations to return to Hong Kong as soon as passages are available. The professorships in Chemistry, Physics, Pathology, Medicine, Surgery, Civil Engineering, Education are vacant. The filling of these posts is left to the action of the appropriate University body.
Attempts are being made to fill the vacant Lectureships in Physics, Chemistry, Mathematics, Biology, History and English, either in London or in China. The appointments will, in the first case be for three years, the minimum time for which it is thought that men could bo recruited. Long term appointments are left for the consideration of the appropriate University body when it s rec nstituted.
It is in finding of staff that difficulties will be most acute. English Universities are not easily filling vacancies: there is a shortage of good candidates. Dificulties aro enormously increased by the uncertainty of the future of the University in Hong Kong. Men who woul be willing to trust their future in a good British Universit,” hesitate to go so far from the academic centre for anything less.
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