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of Public Works, and receive fees for their services. The Institute is furnished with a well equipped Chemical Laboratory and excellent Physical apparatus.
The Hongkong University is an institution that arose from the joint enterprise of British and Chinese subscribers. It was founded with funds representing about equal proportions of Chinese and British money.
At the end of the year the number of students was 189, 108 of whom were taking the Engineering Course, 52 Medicine, and 29 Arta. While most of the students have studied in Hongkong schools, a number come from Canton, the Coast Ports of China, and the Straits Settlements.
The idea of the University is to provide, close to China, eduration for Chinese similar to that given in the British Univer- sities, but at a much cheaper cost; for if a Chinese goes abroad to be educated he has to pay, besides travelling expenses, some $2,000 per annum; whereas at Ilongkong the expenses of the University are $540 per annum for board and tuition, or, including extras, from $800 to $650,
The founders of the University took into consideration the fact that Chinese students being educated abroad have usually to make their fown arrangements for board and lodging. Consequently sometimes they contract irregular labits. All students educated at the Hongkong University are required to become boarders, and thus their whole lives are under supervision whilst they are there. Ample provision is made for indoor and outdoor recreation, aud in this connection it is interesting to note that the Chinese residents of Hougkong recently subscribed a large sum for levelling a new playing field and that the work has just been completed.
The University is composed of three Faculties: 1-Medical, which offers ample facilities for the practice of medicine. The anatomical laboratories were the gift of a Cantonese gentleman (Mr. Ng Li-bing). There is a large staff of instructors in medicine and all the principal medical practitiouers in Hongkong give lectures at the University. 2.-Arts. The establishment of this Faculty was largely due to the munificence of a Chinese gentleman in the Straits Settle- ments (Mr. Cheung Pat-sze). Its special object is to provide train- ing suitable to those who desire to enter the public service or the higher branches of mercantile life. The course of instruction comprises English and Chinese literature, political and constitutional history, political economy, jurisprudence, and international and commercial law. 3-Engineering. Nearly two-thirds of the students belong to this Faculty. It is divided into three branches-Civil, Electrical, and Mechanical. The University has an exceptionally large equipment of machinery and apparatus, and has fourteen. laboratories and workshops. There is practically no place in China where students have such an opportunity of seeing all kinds of machinery in actual working and of learning their practical manage-
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The University insists upon all students having a proper knowledge of their own language although instruction at the
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University is carried out in English. Students are required to pass an examination in written Chinese before entering, and two Chinese Professors, both Hanliu graduates, give lectures on the classics and history of China,
An account of the first congregation for conferring degrees, and of the benefactions during the year 1910 will be found under Section XI-General Observations.
Y.--PUBLIC WORKS.
The erection of a terrace of six two-storied houses on-the east side of Happy Valley for quarters for subordinate bilicers was com- pleted during the year. Each of the wwer end houses contains fire rooms, whilst the four intermediate houses contain four rooms each. All the houses are provided with separate bathrooms, kitchens, and servanta ermmodation. Each house is intended as quarters for yue married or two single subordinate officers.
A large extension of the Central Police Station by the erection of a new block of buildings fronting on Hollywood Road, to contain offices, quarters, etc., was commenced, the foundations being well advanced at the close of the year.
In the New Territories, a boat-house was erected on the bank of the Sham (huu River near Lok Ma Chau Police Station and a matshed was constructed at Castle Peak to serve as a temporary Police Station.
The masonry dam of the Tytnın Tuk Reservoir was constructed to an average height of about 111 feet above the stream-bed (152 feet above the lowest part of the foundations), with the exception of a short length of 75 feet which was purposely kept at a lower level to form a temporary overflow,
The extension of the pumping station, buildings to accom- morate the additional pumping plant was completed and the erection of the pumping engines was practically completed.
Several new streets, both in the City and in Kowloon, were form- ed, kerbed, channelled, and surfaced.
In the New Territories, the reinforced concrete bridge over the Au Tau Creek on the Castle Peak-Fanling Road was completed as was also the widening to 20 feet of the section of roadway extending from near Sheung Shui Train Halk to some distance beyond San Tin Village. A ̈branch_seed, "20 feet in width, was constructed from Shanghai Street (Kowloon) to Sham Shui Po and an approach path to New Kowloon Farni Lots 7 and 8, 8 feet in width, was also completedt.
An additional telephone cable was laid across the harbour from North Point to near the Hunghon Dorks.
Upwards of 7,000 lineal feet of streams were trained in the neighbourhood of Aberdeen. Pokfulam, Sookuupo Valley, in the
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