It had started with an income of £6,000 per annum. He asked if the necessary financial backing would
be forthcoming now. The Chairman said that the
Committee had already faced up to this problem.
Sir Humphrey Prideaux Brune raised the point
as to whether if all the money required was to hand, would we want to spend it.
Mr. Morse
asked whether the
rehabilitation of the University would be
welcomed as he rather feared that, the attitude of
the Chinese would not be favourable.
He thought
it necessary to decide whether the University can
be reconstructed and whether we can afford it.
Sir Humphrey Prideaux Brune considered that
some solid assurance should be sought and that the
Chinese might be asked to give a definite answer
on this.
The Chairman said that the idea of a Malayan
University should be accepted as the Colonial
Office was pretty well committed to this. He
said the Committee should consider whether it
was to be a University of the sort now envisaged, which would be a saving in the long run, or a
Hong Kong Education Institution, from which he
thought all the distinguished students would be
attracted to the better show at Malaya, and
because Malaya was to have a cheap University,
Hong Kong would not be able to call on its
Chinese.
Mr. Morse raised the point of putting up a
second-class University in Hong Kong. He said
that staffs and money were not forthcoming in
this country: should there be a University at
all in Hong Kong?
The Chairman said he had
raised this matter on the previous item of the