CO129-524-2 Hong Kong University- financial position- Chinese studies- future of the Chinese school and the Annual... 27-1-1930 - 12-8-1930 — Page 140

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residences for members of the staff.

This building provision is estimated to involve

an additional capital sum of 2,475,000 or roughly

$2,500,000.

The establishment of a Chinese Faculty -1,148,000.

These additional activities will involve the

expansion and improvement of the central University Office

at a cost of an additional capital sum of $200,000.

Thus, the scheme which I venture to press for

immediate acceptance is estimated to cost roughly $6,848,000

which is roughly £799,000.

I deplore and have always deplored the comparative

neglect of Chinese in the University of Hong Kong. I consider

that the establishment of such a Faculty of Chineseas is

contemplated is an indispensable step towards placing the

University in a position in which it can effectively

discharge its obligations to China. The University is very

cramped for space even in regard to its present activities.

Any extension of its scope will involve additional buildings

Taking these facts into consideration, the additional

capital sum asked for in connexion with these improvements

which I am anxious to inaugurate at once cannot, I submit,

be regarded as unreasonable.

I am convinced that the University of Hong Kong

should and can play a great part in the China of the future

and I place the University's claim to a share in the Boxer

Indemnity with confidence in the hands of Your Lordship and

his Colleagues.

I am writing Your Lordship a separate letter with

reference to the debts outstanding to the University of

Hong Kong on account of Scholarships awarded by the President

of Chinese Republic and various Chinese Provincial Govern-

ments and held by students here.

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