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the site shewn in the block plan. The original site grant-

-ed for the College will in these circumstances revert to

Government. The agreement is embodied in Enclosure 3 (a).

4.

I convened a meeting of some of the Community

the principal embers - Official and Unofficial - to con-

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-sider this matter, and a Sub-Committee was appointed to

report on the Resident and Local Staff required to establish

Fonclosure 5.

(A to DJ

three Faculties

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Medicine, Applied Science, and Law

and

the cost involved ( Enclosure 3 (b) ). The report of the

Sub-Committee was presented to the full Coranittee at a

second Meeting and certain Resolutions were proposed by

myself (Enclosure 3 (c) ). At a third Meeting a set of

Resolutions were finally adopted (Enclosure 3 (a) ).

Briefly the purport of these resolutions was that the

Committee while warmly supporting the scheme, considered

that the Buildings should not be erected until an adequate

Endowment Fund had been collected. They placed the amount

of this Endowment Fund at a sum which would yield £6,000

per annum and they concurred in the proposal that the

College of Medicine and the Technical Institute,for the

support of which in the aggregate the Government is now

paying from Revenue a sum of $15,800 per annum, should be

incorporated in the University and should occupy the

Buildings