HONG KONG UNIVERSITY ADVISORY COMMITTÉL thue NINTH the Committee
Draft-Minutes of meeting of Hekrü
on Tuesday, 28th. May, 1946.
held at the Colonial Office
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Present. Mr. C.W.Cox (In the chairs), Mr. Adams, Mus Forster, Professor History Professor Penson, Mr. Sloss, Si Humphrey Poridean-Brune, Dr. Kamitze,
1. Mr. Cox was heartily welcomed on his return after his illness.
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3. Apologies for absence received from Dr. Priestley, Sir George Moss, Dr. Venn were recorded Mia Pasta
Mr. Burney Dr. Chann
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were unable to be present.
The Committee decided to consider first the abreviated draft report. After considerable discussion of details it was Resolved (a) that Mr. Adams be asked to take in hand a revision
of Parts I and II of the Draft Report to strengthen the matter of Part II by the inclusion of arguments stressed by members of the Committee. It was left to him to combine the two parts if he thought desirable.
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(b) Consideration of Part IV of the Report (Finance) be
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(c) that as the Committee did not approve the summary outline of a "blue print" in the revised Part II the earlier form be used after the section on a Faculty of Arts had been reconsidered by Professor Penson, the section on the Faculties of Architecture and Engineering by Dr. Priestley, and the section on the Faculty of Medicine by Dr. Kauntze.
The Committee considered proposals for the breaking up of maximum salaries of members of the staff into Basic Pay, Overseas Pay, and Family Allowances.
Resolved (a) that it approved a common basic pay for domiciled
and overseas staff and the principle of family allowances: provided the basic pay and overseas pay taken together, apart from Family Allowance, was sufficient to attract good candidates from Great Britain and the Dominions.
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(b) that (i) the proportion each of these parts bore to another, and (ii) the formulation of scales of pay within the approved maxima was a matter for decision by the competent University body.
(c) that in presenting a tentative estimate/expenditure on salaries based on maxima should be presented but that the possible saving arising from (i) further employment of Chinese, (b) the employment of a proportion of unmarried European men and of European women should be pointed out in a note.
6. The Committee considered the difficulty likely to arise towards the end of this year when re-equipment of the University Departments will be well in hand but no appointment of senior members for the teaching staff can be made. It was agreed that vacant professorships and readerships could not be filled till the future of the University was assured by the action of H.M.G.
Agreed that the next meeting of the Committee should be held at 2.30 on Tuesday, 11th. June, 1946, in the Colonial Office.
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Committee considered Professor Redmands memorandum on the Future of the Faculty of Engmeeing
I decided by a majonty that it did not establish a case for maintaning the mechanical & Electrical Engineering Facts Departments, The Committee agreed that, subject to Mr. Priestley's approval, the original suggestion of maintainting only the Civil Engineering Department, should fined
retained.