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No. TURC
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FINANCE
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Site and Buildings.
The University Committee of 1939 recommended the removal of the University to a site outside the very crowded municipal limits of Hong Kong. The present site, on a hill sloping sharply to the harbour, or remarkable natural beauty had become for Hong Kong what the College gardens are for Cambridge and Oxford. But the site was never planned as a
A whole and hence it has been used very uneconomically. consideration that weighed when the transfer of the University was recommended was that the University was impeding the
Victoria. A committee natural growth of the city of. in 1940 reconsidered the whole matter with great care and produced plans and drawings to show that properly used the site would accommodate a University easily twice its size at that date. Provision to meet municpal claims was made by a proposal to surrender part of the site for town extension and for road construction. By leveling and filling the existing inadequate
These land for games could be very greatly increased. plans and detailed recommendations were almost certainly lost in the Japanese destruction of the University records. sufficient of the proposals is remembered by members of this Committee finally to dispose of the idea of the 1939 Committee that a change of site was essential for development.
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A new Science building was completed about three months before the Japanese invasion. It was planned to take existing classes in Chemistry, Physics. Botany and Zoology but in the planning the architect was directed to the view that after a few years it was hoped that the complete block might be required for Chemistry alone. For a University such as is now projected this block should be assigned to the Chemistry Department, and additional accomodation would have to be provided of no less space, for Physics, at a cost in pre-war price, of about £25,000 to £30,000. Accommodation for Botany, Zoology, Geology and probably reography, would also be necessary at a somewhat lower cost, perhaps £15,000, since accommodation for research work in main Zoology is already
The provided in the new Fisheries Research Institute. new equipment for these Laboratories will cost, little less than £40,000, if the UNESCO inventories for the re- establishment of Laboratories in institutionŝin devas ated areas is taken the basis of calculation.
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The cost of rehabitation of the existing buildings of the Faculties of Science and Acts cannot be computed, as no
Alts information is available about the cost of building in post- war Hong Kong. All builaing materials except bricks and cement are to be imported and the demand is very great. A sum of £20,000 for this work would not seem too high. buildings of the Medical Faculty had before the war ceased to be adequate and they have been so side against the hill-
By a makeshift arrangement side that extensions are impossible. one new building might suffice to make possible a re- distribution of space among the Departments. the building could hardly be less than £15,000. of the laboratories for Physiology, Pathology is likely to cost at least £25,000 on the MESCO minimal basis.
The cost of
Reequipment and Biochemistry