Mr. Ivor Tnomas
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I submit application for an interim C.D.W. grant of £1,000 for initial expenditure on a scheme for providing five hong kong engineering students with two-year apprentice training with engineering firms in this country. The total expenditure required for the five scholarships is expected to be of the order of £3,500 but the exact amount required cannot yet be calculated. The grant will be charged to the liong mong allocation.
This scue.ne continues previous scholarships arrangements financed outside the C.D.W. Vote. An account of these is given in tue memorandum of application. In order to put the students who will be brought none under this scheme on the same footing as Chinese students brought home under previous arrangements, tuey are being paid on a basis which differs from that commonly adopted with C.D.w. scholarships. Each student will receive a grant at a rate sufficient to bring his total earnings, including his apprenticeship wages up to 230 per monta. There may be income tax complications about tais and it is possible also that the Treasury hay question a departure from the ordinary arrange.nents but I think there are adequate grounds for us to try and provide a scheme on the lines which appear to be most acceptable to those who have been responsible for making the arrangements.
A progress report on the work of five hong kong students who are already here under a scheine financed from Hong Kong funds, forms the second enclosure to No.7. You may be interested to glance at the reports which show that the previous baten of students are I think exceedingly well reported on by the firms with whom they have been working.
I recommend this application for approval.
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