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SUMMARY,
73. These financial estimates can be summarised as follows:
Non-recurrent expenditure
Repair of buildings £46,000}
ii Equipment
£
116,000
iii New Building
600,000,
iv Endowment of basic chairs
1350,000
£1,066,000
range
104,480 per annum
37,500
Recurrent expenditure
i Salaries
ii Departmental Grants
£141,980 per annum £84,980 per annum.
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less income of £57,000 74. In broad terms therefore the provision of a University of the scale and standard we propose will call for an expenditure from sources other than those now available to the University of approximately £1 million capital and £85,000 annually.
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Part V.
Immediate Action,
to advise in some detail
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75. By our terms of reference we were asked on the steps necessary to restart such of the work hitherto undertaken by the University as is essential for the needs of Hong Kong, whatever the decision arrived at on the broader issue.' Early in our sessions. however, we were informed that there had been established in London by Order in Council The Hong Kong, University Provisional Powers Committee with authority to deal with immediately important University matters until the proper authorities of the University could fulfil their functions. We have been kept informed of the decisions of this Provisional Powers Committee and have received the following summary of the action it has taken to facilitate an early resumption of higher education in Hong Kong:—
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(a) Buildings: The Civil Affairs Administration in Hong Kong has undertaken to push forward as rapidly as possible with the work of restor- ing 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 Arts building, of an office and of residences for students and staff.
(b) 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. The Provisional Powers Committee has not attempted to make good the wartime deficiency of periodicals and new books, but suggests that towards this end the University should seek the help of the British Council and of the United Nations Organisation.
(c) Laboratory equipment: English manufacturers of laboratory equip ment have been accommodating to a degree beyond earlier anticipation. It is expected that equipment for the elementary sciences and for medicine, will be installed and ready for use by October of this year, and that equip- ment for engineering laboratories will follow two or three months later.
(d) Admission Examination: To ensure a satisfactory standard of entrance, it has been arranged that the London University Matriculation
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APPENDIX A.
ADVISORY COMMITTEE.
C. W. M. Cox, Esq., C.M.G. (Chairman). Educational Adviser to Secretary of State
for Colonies.
Walter Adams, Esq. Secretary of the Inter-University Council for Higher Education in the Colonies and Secretary-Designate of the Colonial University Grants Advisory Committee.
E. Burney. Esq., M.C., H.M.I. Member of the Advisory Committee on Education in
the Colonies. Visited Hong Kong in 1934 to advise on education.
H. J. Channon, Esq., C.M.G., D.Sc. Member of the McLean Commission on Higher Education in Malaya; of the Elliot Commission on Higher Education in West Africa and of the Asquith Commission on Higher Education in the Colonies. Formerly Professor of Biochemistry, Liverpool University.
Sir Herbert Eason, C.B., C.M.G., M.D., M., F.R.C.S. President of the General
Medical Council. Formerly Principal of London University.
Mrs. L. Forster. For many years resident in Hong Kong: wife of the Professor of
Education, Hong Kong University.
Professor W. J. Hinton. λ Professor of Political Economy Dean, member of Court and Council of Hong Kong University 1913 to 1929. Director of Studies, Institute of
Medical Adviser to
Bankers since 1929.
Dr. W. M. Kauntze, C.M.G., M.B.E., M.D., F.R.C.P., D.P.M.
the Secretary of State for the Colonies.
A. Morse, Esq., C.B.E. General Manager of Hong Kong and Shanghai Banking Cor-
poration, and Treasurer of Hong Kong University.
Late Consul-General, Hankow.
Sir George Moss, K.B.E. Professor L. M. Penson. Chairman of Academic Council and Professor of Modern History London University. Member of the Asquith Commission; and of the Advisory Committee on Education in the Colonies.
Sir Humphrey Prideaux-Brune, K.B.E., C.M.G. Cultural Relations Department of the Foreign Office. Formerly acting Chinese Counsellor and sometime Charge d'Affaires, His Majesty's Embassy, Chungking, also China Relations Officer, New Delhi.
R. E. Priestley, Esq., M.C., D.Sc. Vice-Chancellor, Birmingham University. Member of the Asquith Commission; of the Irvine Committee on Higher Education in the West Indies and of the Advisory Committee on Education in the Colonies.
D. J. Sloss, Esq., C.B.E. Vice-Chancellor, Hong Kong University since 1937. Formerly
Principal of University College, Rangoon.
N.. L. Smith, Esq., C.M.G. Formerly Hong Kong Administrative Service (Colonial
Secretary 1936-1941),
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J. A. Vønn, Esq., Litt.D., F.S.A. President of Queen's College, Cambridge. Member Goons'
of the Asquith Commission on Higher Education in the Colonies. Visited Hong Kong 1931.
Miss A. M. Ruston (Secretary). Member of the Eastern Department of the Colonial
Office.
HKUAC 1.
HKUAC 2.
HKUAC 3.
HKUAC 4.
HKUAC 5.
HKUAC 6.
APPENDIX B.
HONG KONG UNIVERSITY ADVISORY COMMITTEE
LIST OF COMMITTEE PAPERS ISSUED UP TO IST JUNE, 1946.
Copy of letter dated 9th November, 1939, from the Secretary of State
for the Colonies to the Governor of Hong Kong.
Report by the 1943 Advisory Committee on Hong Kong University and
the Higher Educational Institutes in Malaya and Hong Kong. The Future of the Hong Kong University-Memorandum submitted by the Colonial Office to the Far Eastern Committee of the War Cabinet. Observations regarding the possible reconstitution of the University of Hong Kong by Dr. Gordon King, F.R.C.S., F.R.C.O.G. Former Dean of the Medical Faculty of the University.
Copy of a letter dated 30th August, 1945, from Professor Percy Roxby
of the British Council in China.
Copy of a letter dated 22nd August, 1945. from Dr. Joseph Needham,
ScF.R.S., Head of the British Scientific Mission in China.
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