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Housing of students and staff had ceased to be adequate. A sum of £15,000 might easily be required to repair damage to hostels, houses and the Studens' Union building. The University had a project for additional staff quarters to cost about £20,000. To house the aduitional staff and students of the projected University would cost at least three times that amount, i.e. £60,000. A small sum of perhaps £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 encourage a local benefactor to build a Hall which is not an affront to the buntest
thetic sense. It has been said that merit can be counted to the Japanese against the record of their political imcompetance for the erection of a beaufiful Government House and the destruction of the University Hall,
No funds for capital expenditure on books will be necessary at once.
Summary of non-recurring charges.
This estimate of charges is quite likely to be very wide of the mark. It is impossible to guess what building costs will be a year hence.
Buildings
£
Repair of Science building New Physic block
•5,000
20,000
17
Zoology etc. block
15,000
Repair of Medical buildings
2,000
11
New
15,000
Repair of Arts
15,000
11
11 Hostels dc.
10,000
60,000
3,000
118,000
New Hostels and houses
Repair of Libraries
No atempt to estimate the cost of rehabilitation of the buildings of the Engineering Faculty has been made as its future is still uncertain.. But a guess at £40,000 would probably be within the estimate.
Reequipment of Laboratories
6 Greater precision is possible in this, as the Committee
has the inventories and estimate of UNESCO as a basis.
e.
(a) Chemistry, Physics, Botany Geology £35,000
b) Physiology and other Medical Labor-
atories
(c) Engineering
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no estimate yet made
25,000
£60,000
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The total of non-recurring charges would be £208,000 at least.
A large athletic ground has long been needed but nothing is more difficult to obtain. The University has already asked for an auequate 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.
the
Recurring charges.
938
The "blue-print" requires a total of 17 professors
3 readers. 30 lecturers, 16 junior lecturers, 35 demonstrators and tutors.