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fifty additional students, As the three University hostels
are practically full, this increased accommodation, provided without cost to the University, would meet a probable serious need in the future. We hope the Missions may be able to help
the University in this way.
The Registrar advises us that the following minor
retrenchments in the Chinese olerical and domestic staff are practicable, and we recommend their adoption. An extra clerk was lately added in the library for the experiment of opening in the evening, but the small use made of the innovation had not justified the expense of lighting and the clerk'a wages
of 2600 a year.
Also a superfluous clerk in the Medical library which is too small to require a separate man; also a caretaker and certain gardeners and watchmen; saving another
$2.520 a year.
We are of opinion that no general increase in the present scale of University fees for tuition and residence is
desirable.
University salaries are in sterling, and in Hongkong are paid at the fixed privileged rate of a 2/- dollar; an arrangement which is now common in the colony, But an extraordinary practice has arisen in the University of pay -ing these sterling salaries to members of the staff when on leave in England, not in sterling, but in dollars at the special rate; with the result that the salaries have lately been paid in sterling at twice or three times their stated amount. The Agreements do not mention leave, and we are of opinion could not have intended such a practice; but we understand they are considered ambiguous. We think the practice wrong; and recon- mend that it be abandoned, and that the Agreements, if not clear in this sense, should henceforward be made so.
In our
estinate referred to under the fifth head, we have calculated future leave payments in accordance with this recommendation.
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