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HONG KONG UNIVERSITY ADVISORY CON
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DRAFT A NUTES OF THE FOURTH MEETING OF THIS COMMITTE HORSUND LUCKEN HE CONFERENCE ROOM AT THE COLONIAL OFFICE. DOVER HOUSE ON MONDAY MARCH 11TH 791€ AT 2.30.
Present
Mr.
C. Cox (in the Chair)
Mr. Walter Adems
Mr. E. Burney
Mrs. L. Forster
Professor W.J. Hinton
Dr. Kauntze
Sir George Moss
Professor L.M. Penson
Sir Humphrey Prideau-Brune
Mr. D.J. Sloes
Mr. N.L. Smith Hise A.M. Ruelion
Brigadier D.M. MacDougall, Chief Civil Afreire Officer of the
Military Administration in Hong Kong was present during the earlier
part of the meeting.
Apologies for absence were received from Dr. Channon,
Sir Herbert Eason, Mr. A. Morse, Dr. Priestley and Dr. Venn.
1.
The draft minutes of the last meeting were approved.
2. Mr. Sloss reported that a telegram had been sent to Hong Kong
asking for pluns of the site or the University if they could be
found.
3. Mr. Sloss also reported that Professor Redmond had been unable
to get a passage from Ireland but would appear at the next
meeting of the Committee to discuss the case for or against
the retention of the Faculty of Engineering.
The Chairman invited Brigadier MacDougall to speak about
opinion in Hong Kong on the re-opening of the University.
Brigadier MacDougall said that he wished to plead for the
earliest possible re-opening and that in this he expressed the
views also of the Commander in Chief and the Governor Sir Mark Young,
It was partly a matter of prestige and partly to arrest the drift
Even of Hong Kong students to universities in Chino.
it
this meant
a certain improvisation, he thought nevertheless that an attempt should be made to open the University in the Autumn of this year.
Many of the Chinese universities in what had been Occupied China were already open.
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Mr. Cox thought that as secondary schools in Hong Kong had
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