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HONG KONG UNIVERSITY ADVISORY COMMITTEE.

DRAFI MINISTSof the First Meeting of the Hong Kong University Advisory Committee held at 2.30 p.m. on Friday, the 18th of January, 1946, in the Conference Room, Dover House.

Present: Mr. C. W. M. Cox (in the chair).

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Mr. Walter Adams. Dr. H. J. Channon.

Sir Herbert Eason.

Mrs. L. Forster.

Sir Edward Gent.

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Professor W. J. Hinton."

Sir George Moss.

Professor L. M. Penson.

Dr. R. E. Priestley.

Mr. D. J. Sloss.

Mr. N. L. Smith.

Dr. J. A. Venn.

Sir Humphrey Prideaux-Brune,

Miss A. M. Ruston (Secretary).

Mr. E. Burney and Mr. E. A. Morse were unable to he present.

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The Chairman on behalf of the Secretary of State

extended a welcome to the members of the Committee and

said how grateful he was that they had been able to

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accept his invitation to serve.

The issue on which

they were asked to advise was one of considerable im- portance to Hong Kong and to some extent to Malaya as

well, and had a definite bearing on China and on the

estimation in which Great Britain was held in the Far

Acceptance of the invitation to join

East, generally.

the Committee meant considerable sacrifice of time

for a number of those present probably all - which

they could 111 afford. Sir George Moss came from

Devonshire, Dr. Priestley from Birmingham, Dr. Venn

from Cambridge.

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C Melox The Chairman then-Bade a few rezarks about the

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abership of the Gommittee.

He recalled that a-few

of those present had been good enough to accept invit-

ations from the Colonial Office early in 1945 to serve

on a small committee with much narrower terms of

reference

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