envisaged that the University should in future
attempt to attract students from China and
devote itself generally towards extending
the sphere of its influence outside the
Colony of Hong Kong.
Any
such wholesale
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pursuit of purposes transcending Colonial interests as
such would not be a legitimate object of C.D. & W.
assistance.
(b)În so far as the pre-war University did not fully
meet the requirements of the Colony itself, it ean
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be aruged that the grant of £250,000 now given
by H.M.G., in addition to the funds made
available by the Hong Kong Government, can be
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used for development so as to meet these
requirements, and that any use of yet further
(ie CD & W money)
funds for development within these limits would
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take a great deal of justification especially as
(c) before the war a proportion of Hong Kong University
students came from Malaya. The present project
for a Malayan University will probably mean that
in a few years there will be no more Malayan
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students come to Hong Kong University,
and
this would prima facie reduce the number.
of British Colonial students attending the
University.
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