Civil Affairs Headquarters,
Lower Albert Road,
Hong Kong.
12th March, 1946.
25
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My dear Miss Ruston,
Very many thanks for your letter of the 29th January concerning the Medical Degrees (received to-day!)
The original sealed copy of the Order in Council went adrift in the Civil Affairs H.Q. at the end of October or beginning of November and never reached me.
When I got back from London some three days after my return the letter appointing me Chairman of the Committee arrived, but without its enclosure.
However, I had the draft prepared last July and worked out the drill in readiness to go ahead when the actual final print should arrive.
We have hald two meetings and the original twenty candidates have been approved.
There were however thirteen additional candidates who had gone from here to the Ling Nam. These had all done the requisite five years, including the essential two years at the Hong Kong University, and they had each year passed an examination, but they had not passed a final examination.
In the circumstances Dr. Gordon King, on whose expert advice we have to rely, felt that these lads should have a final short course and sit for a comprehensive "final" examination. The course had been completed and the papers came in for marking to-day.
We shall adjudicate this week and then be prepared to confer the degrees.
If we dealt with the conferment of degrees in closed committee there is no doubt that the candidates would feel that ther was something lacking.
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