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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 stutus serving only local needs.
by great good fortune the Libraries are nearly intact and no large capital expenditure on books is called for.
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The plan of the 1940 Committee demands a rebuilding of a great part of the existing University ena for this we have set down a general sus, based on the estimates of the est Indies Committee of il million pounds to be spent over a period of betwean 7446 10 years. This would provide for the Housing dministration accommodation, auditional Science laboratories, new edical and Engineering buildings, new Halls of Residence, Students' Union, and staff quarters, timt is to say, in all, for woll over two thirds of the University's accomodation. The new buildings will have to be of four floors and therefore, on the steep hillside, will have to be very carefully sited. 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 cost of the Science building completed in 1941 and provision made for a seventy-five percent increase in the average cost of building in the eriod between the third and the tenth year after the re-opening of the University the total cost of building and work on the site mign be put at about £600,000. This sum ought to provide fully twice the present teaching and residential accommodation.
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ments of existing buildings by the end of ten years after the resumption of University work and an increase of residence for members of the staff may be reckoned a between 2730,000 and £1,130,000.
Staff.
The salary scales of the Irvine Committee have been adopte as a basis for an estimate under this head. further pro- posal of that Committee commends itself very strongly to us; that by wnion His Lajesty!s Government is as ed, in place of making a grant to pay the salaries of all professors, to endow certain "basic professorships", to give the University a measure of protection against the not infrequent sudden