COLONIAL UNIVERSITY GRANTS ADVISORY COMMITTEE.
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C.U.G.C./16./48.
UNIVERSITY OF HONG KONG: PROVISIONAL APPLICATION FOR CAPITAL GRANT FROM THE C. D. & W. HIGHER EDUCATION ALLOCATION.
1. No grant from the C. D. & W. higher education allocation has yet been made to the University of Hong Kong. As part of a general settlement with Hong Kong of financial liabilities arising out of the war, it has been announced (Colonial Office statement of 26th April 1948) that "as a further expression of their willingness to assist Hong Kong, His Majesty's Government are prepared .
to make a free grant of £250,000 for the Hong Kong University" This will not be a charge on C. D. & W. funds.
2. It is understood that the local government is prepared (a) to increase its recurrent, grant to the University from £28,450 p.a. to 393,750 p.a., and (b) to make a capital grant of £250,000.
3. The Vice-Chancellor, Mr. Sloss, has submitted in a letter dated 29th April 1948 (copy attached) a provisional application for grants from the C. D. & W. higher education
allocation totalling £255,000. This application is submitted to the Colonial University Grants Advisory Committee informally at this stage, because (a) the Colonial Office has not yet completed its consultation with the Treasury and the local authorities on questions such as the use to be made of His Majesty's Government's grant of £250,000 and the relationship between the capital assistance from Imperial sources and that from the local Government, and the detailed proposals in this application have not yet been discussed with the local authorities; (b) the Vice-Chancellor is not yet able to give firm estimates for the costs of the various schemes submitted.
The Colonial Office would welcome any general com- ments which the Committee felt able to make at this stage, which would guide the University and Colonial Office when the later stage of formal submission of the applications arrives.
4. In Mr. Sloss's letter reference is made to (a) a statement made by the Secretary of State for the Colonies on 7th April 1948 on the restoration of the University, and (b) the report of a committee appointed in 1946 by the Secretary of State to advise on the future of the University.
A copy of the former is attached. A copy of the latter was circulated to members of the Committee as part of the Inter-University Council papers for the meeting on the 26th September, 1946 (1.U.C./C.37./46 - Appendix D.).
Colonial Office, 8, Park Street, London, W. 1.
WALTER ADAMS. Secretary.
20th May, 1948.