is more difficult to obtain. The University has already asked for an adequate area in new land to be made available by reclamation on the South side of the island. Perhaps the Government might add this to its earlier gift of a site.
Recurring charges
9. The "blue-print" requires a total of 17 professors, 3 readers, 30 lecturers, 16 junior lecturers, 35 demonstrators and tutors.
10. If the Irvine Report is taken as a basis of an estimate of the cost of salaries the position would be:-
17 professors (£1,500 a year)
3 readers
£25,500
£1,100 a year
3,300
lecturers
£880 a year)
26,400
junior lecturers (£600 a year)
9,600
Librarian and Registrar (£1,500 a year) Vice Chancellor (£2,500 a year)
3,000
2,500
70,300
Superannuation Contribution
for above (10%)
7,030
77,330
Demonstrators and Tutors (£200)
7,000
Subordinate staff and servants
with superannuation contribution)
4,500
£129,330
Departmental Maintenance Grants, etc
11.
The West Indies Report covering a slightly narrower range of subjects estimates the total of these at 22,800, of scholer- ships at
in Hong K500 (a sum that probably ought to be much exceeded
Research grants (which would exclude the Fisheries Research Institute for which the local Government has assumed responsibility) would require £6,000 a year, the Library £3,000 or more and miscellaneous charges about £8,000 a total under this head of about £32,300.
The University's resources
12.
The University could set against these recurring charges an expectation of about £22,000 from fees, £24,000 from endowments and a subvention from Government which before the war was H.K. $350,000 (= £21,850) - a total of £67,500.
13. It is sufficiently clear to the Committee that the project of a Hong Kong University is essentially different from the University schemes for the West Indies and the African colonies. Its purpose is much more political than social and economic. The scheme becomes possible only if H.M. Government is willing to make a grant to meet the whole of the capital expenditure roughly estimated at £208,000, and an annual grant of about £100,000.. This estimate mikes no provision for Engineering or Architecture, a subject for which the Committee may wish to make provision. Tt does assume continued
financial help from the Hong Kong Government on the scale approved before the war.
3.