Secretariat File
No. 6381/1945.
RECEIVED
No. 176
18 JUL 1947
C. O. RECK
7th
GOVERNMENT HOUSE,
HONG KONG.
th July, 1947.
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I have the honour to refer to your aespatch No. 267
dated the 23rd December, 1946, regarding post graduate
scholarships granted in England to Hong Kong students, and
to express my appreciation of the very full history of the
question of the F.B.I. apprenticeships set forth therein.
16 I have already indicated in my telegram No. 1025 of the 19th
June, 1947, that I agree to the cost of the first five
scholarships being charged to Hong Kong funds, and that I
also agree in respect of the second batch of five scholarships
that any cost in excess of such grant as may be forthcoming
from the Colonial Development and Welfare Fund should be
similarly charged.
2.
No provision has been made in the Estimates for
this expenditure and a supplementary vote will have to be
taken in due course. While in this case no considerable
opposition is to be expected, I am somewhat apprehensive of
the effect that such unforeseen charges may have on unofficial
members of Council, who are being called upon to authorize
expenditure to which they have been committed in advance.
Reference to this aspect has already been made in paragraph
35 of Sir Mark Young's despatch No. 114 dated the 9th May,
1947.
3.
I take this opportunity of referring to Lord Hall's
despatch No. 9 dated the 9th May, 1946, regarding the
suggestion that F.B.I. Apprenticeships should be made
available to non-graduates. I venture to express the view
THE RIGHT HONOURABLE
ARTHUR CREECH JONES, P.C., M.P.