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project would meet not merely with approval but with the active co-operation of the Chinese Government. The Minister of Chinese Educati.n hal said that they realised that the future of China depended on the use of English as a second langungo in Chinese education. It was a manifest duty for Hong Kong and would be of valuable service in China if a special point could be made of training Chinese teachers of English for work in China. The Minister of Economic Affairs was concerned with the development of the Chinese ship-building industry after the war.
He suggested that the Chinese Government would willingly co-operate to establish, a Department of Shipbuilding and Engineering in Hong hong. Those were instances where one met with cordial goodwill of the Chinese and a desire to take advantage of what could be done by Great Britain, with an implied condition that Great Britain would do her part t maintain the old Chinese classical learnings. He had suggested, in discussing this matter with Mr. Cox, that a University for Hong Kong alone was an extravagance. The needs of Hong Kong Colony could be met adequately by a small medical school, a School of Engineering and a Teachers' Training College. The Government of Hong Kong had not concerned itself with the engineers trained at the University. They had however, employed a consider ble number of doctors. In some thirty years a very large amount of the Colony's revenues had been spent on the employment of European subordinates in the Public Works Department at salaries which looked extravagant from an English point of view but which perhaps were less than adequate to meet the standards of living which had become customary in Hong Kong. Yet,, in all that time, the Government had employed nly one engineer trained in the University though it had shouldered a great part of the financial burden.
The problem, for him et any rate, was whether the University should be re-established and on what conditions. His own convicti n was that the only condition which would justify the re-establishment of the University, the cost of new buildings and recruitment of a new staff would be that they should be in a position to set up a British institution comprable with existing American institutions in China, a University which might be adequately repre- sentative of British achievements and which would maintain British prestige and influence in China.
The Chairman thanked Mr. Sloss for his extremely interesting statement. He had gone through a very trying period and he c.ngratulated him on his emergence with reasonable physical strength. The work done was extremely important and interesting and the problems he had raised in the latter part of, his statement regarding the future of his University and higher education there would have to be considered. He was sure members of the Committee would appreciate what Mr. Sloss had told them.
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Burney said that if the two saviours of the University Library had not already been rewarded by the Government he hoped that they would be, and the Chairman said that this had alrundly been noted..
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