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far been achieved.
Any rapid expansion would, I realise,
give rise to far reaching problems of building,
staff and finance, but these issues must in
my view,be faced, and every endeavour made to
rectify as soon as possible, a situation which
I can only regard as unsatisfactory.
5. In the case of the University I
appreciate that the finalising of plans for
rehabilitation has been unavoidably delayed,
pending the visit of the Inter-University
Council delegation next March and any
recommendation it may make on the request for
assistance from the central fund for
education provided under the Colonial
Development and Welfare Act. Until decisions
have been taken on this matter it is, of
course, true that the University Authorities
cannot be certain of what global figure will
be available for the restoration and develop-
ment of the University. But here too I feel
that with more unofficial support and goodwill
a further effort might well be made to secure
a more rapid advance in reconstruction work
than has hitherto been possible.
6.
Turning to the question of Housing, I am
seriously concerned to hear of the slow
progress which is being made towards remedying
the very unsatisfactory conditions, due to
congestion and other causes, under which a
large part of the normal working population
conditous of Hong Kong are compelled to live, which are
now much aggravated by an additional influx
of population due to the disturbed cvil warz