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Committed consider that it would be useless to attempt to make a timetable for the expenditure, since this would depend on indeterminates such as building potential and availability of teaching staff.
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uncluded in it's Excammentasioup A University Committeo of 1939 commented the removal of the University to a site outside the very crowded municipal limits of Hong Kong. The present site,of remarkable natural beautyx on a hill sloping sharply to the harbour, had bocomo for Hong Kong what the College gardens are for Cambridge and Oxford, but it was never planned as a whole and honce has been used very uneconomically. A consideration that favoured the transfer of the University to a now site was that it was impeding the natural growth of the city of Victoria. A Committec in 1940 reconsidered the whole matter with great care and produced plans and drawings to show that properly used the site could easily accommodate a University twice as largo as Hong Kong University then was. Provision to meet municipal claims was made by a proposal to surrender part of the site for town extension and for road construction, Compensation was to be found by extensions on to unoccupied Government land north and west of the University, and by the acquisition of a small site in the Now Territories for a survey camp.'
The plan showed that, by levelling and filling, the cxisting inadequate space for games could be greatly increased. On the basis of the information at
e disposal the Committee favoured the acceptance of the proposals off Committee and has assume in the following estimatos that the University will be developed on the present sito.
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65. Restoration of existing buildings.
Estimatos of the cost of repairs immediately necessary to the existing buildings can bo little more than guossos based on the cost of typhoon-damage repairs before the war. There was No, has been information available to Committee on the current costs of
which, with the exception
building in Hong Kong on the prices of building materials,
f brick and cement, will have to be
the following ostimato of
imported.
Qumit tee
the cost of repairs:
Live
Arts, Administration and Students Union
Science
• •
Modical
Engineering
Library Buildings
Hostels and Staff Houses
•
༢ £15,000 5,000
£ 8.000 £5,000
£3,000
£10,000
£ 46,000
6 Now Buildings
provided
The plans of the 1940 Committee envisaged the rebuilding of the greater part of the existing University. On the basis of these plans, taking into account the availability of new accommodation (such as that for research work in Marine Zoology already provided in the plans for the new Fishorics Research Institute), and assuming that full usc would be made of existing structures (for example, that the Science building completed in
/1941
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