INWARD TELEGRAM
TO THE SECRETARY OF STATE FOR THE COLONIES
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FROM HONG KONG (Sir A. Grantham)
D. 9th October, 1947 R. 9th
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(45) Your telegram No. 1553 of 27th September, 1947.
Hong Kong Univerat by.
Following for Mayla, Begins.
I am of the opinion, as are the members of the Council, that a token grant from United Kingdom Treasury would not (repeat would not) serve as an incentive to induce local Chinese to make more contributions than they otherwise would.
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I agree that it would be a great misiska to wind up the University. University should be carried on 90 pre-war besis until such time as it is possible to exprind 1.6.
To close the gap between present revenue and revenue which it will be necessary to obtain in order to carry on University os iba pre-war scale, 14 is proposed that Legislative Counell should be asked to vote en annual sum estimated at one and a half million dollars (Hong Kong) which may vary slightly more or les9,
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The figure given in this connection by sloss of Hong Kong $ 700,000 is an underestimate.
There remains the question of rehabilitation, As you know, it was largely destroyed during the War, It soeña only reasonable that this is a proper charge on K.Me Government sopooially as this Government has not the funds
60 weet the coab. I must therefore ask that the Trasanry be approached to make a capital grant of Hel. $4
4,000,000 which is the estimated cost of restora ti on.
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