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Hong Kong Government were both contributing to the endowment fund.
After further discussion it was agreed that
(i) the C.D. & W. grant should be administered by the University and that the grant promised by H. M. G. in the 1948 Financial Settlement should also go to the University (if for technical reasons it was necessary that this money should be paid over to the Hong Kong Government it could be passed on immediately to the University)
(ii)
(iii)
(iv)
as a corollary to (i) it should be ascertained whether the University was in fact competent to administer C. D. & W. grants and if not arrangements made for it to do so.
it should be ascertained whether Hong Kong had been informed at any stage of the conditions attaching to C. D. & W. grants
a Public Announcement should be mado dealing
with the two capital items as soon as possible
(v) a telegram should be sent to the Commissioner General, South East Asia to discover whether the preliminary reactions of the Australian Government to the sugaostion that they might contribute to the endowment fund had been obtained; later the matter should be taken up with the Australian Government through the Commonwealth Relations Office.
(vi)
Hong Kong should be informed that the Governor
had, conditional upon the Treasury
agreeing to subscribe £250,000 to the
endowment fund, suggested that Hong Kong might also contribute £250,000.
2.
Director of Education..
Mr. Edmonds mentioned the names of officers who had been considered for the post of Director of Education in Hong Kong and said that in his opinion the choice lay between Mr. Hayden (Director of Education, Fiji) Mr.Bayliss and Mr. Lewis (both Administrativo officers in Malaya).
Sar C. Cox said that as Mr. Hayden if appointed would probably remain in Hong Kong for some time the good group of y un or officers present in the Hong Kong Education Department might not get the chance they deserved.
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