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Dear Dr. Yap,
Colonial Office,
Downing Street,
S.K.1.
26th March, 1946.
As you know, an Order in Council was made on the 6th October, 1945, a copy of which I enclose, under which a Committee known as the University of Hong Kong Medical Degrees Emergency Committee, has been set up in Hong Kong for the purpose of determining what examinations and courses of study relating to medicine and surgery in other Universities or places of learning shall be deemed equivalent to examinations and courses of study in the University of Hong Kong. The Order provides that any degree conferred by this Committee shall be deemed to have beer. conferred at a congregation of the whole University. The General Medical Council hus agreed to continue the recognition under Section 13 of the Medical Act, 1886, of degrees granted on behalf of the Senate of the University by this Committee. I may say that when the matter was first put to the General Kedical Council by the former Dean of the Faculty of Medicine in Hong Kong, Dr. Gordon King, your name was included amongst the list of students whose particulars were submitted to the General Medical Council.
I attach a copy of a telegram from Hong Kong showing that a degree was conferred on you in your absence by this Emergency Degrees Committee on the 22nd March. This telegram crossed with one which I sent asking for confirmation that the degree had been conferred, and requesting that the diploma should be sent here by safe hand.
DR. YAP JIN YAU.
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