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years for that guarantee would merely enable the University to : carry these students, who are now in the department, to the end of the course. The University must have an assurance that the grant will be an annual one and that it will not be discontinued without at least three years notice.
9. I recognise the difficulties in the present position. The Secretary of State has definitely limited last year's grant to the currency of a year and it is always stated that a Government cannot commit its successors. The question of whether His Excellency can
give an assurance is obviously not one which the Council should expect him to answer at a meeting of the University Council.
I recommend that the Council do instruct the Registrar to write to Government explaining the position and setting out clearly the conditions which must be satisfied before the Council can ask the
Finance Committee to agree to the University's accepting the finan- cial responsibility involved in the continuation of the Chinese
School. This letter should be accompanied by a report on the working of the School up-to-date.
10. There remains the question of Mr Tang Chi Ngong's donation of $60,000. There is a proposal that this sum should be combined with a sum of $100,000 which has been offered by an anonymous dono and a joint scheme for the construction of a building would accom-
modate both the Chinese School and the Chinese Library. This mat-
ter is dealt with in a separate note.
W. W. HORNELL,
Vice Chancellor. 7th May, 1929.
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