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heavily to subsidise the University is unwilling that any new Faculty should be inaugurated unless it is definitely self-supporting. Mr. Amery was I think in favour of a very largely increased allocation of the Boxer money to the University, but the Buxton Committee reported against it. It therefore now appears hopeless to establish this Chair.

On the other hand £200,000 has been granted to the China Universities Committee, and I am in hopes that I may persuade them to grant some scholarships to Hong-Kong graduates of not less than two years' standing or to post- graduates from Hong Kong to British Universities.

It would be of great value to secure Lord Passfield's support of this proposal.

The remarks in the Report of the Economic Mission re- garding the immense value to British trade of teaching Chinese students in British Universities re-echo almost verbatim what I said in 1911-12 when urging the creation of this University, and establishing the Engineering Faculty as its first Chair.

I enclose a copy of the Hong Kong University Annual Report for 1930 received this morning. I have a duplicate.

Yours sincerely,

Augang

A.Mayhew Esq.

The Advisory Committee on Education in the Colonies,

2, Richmond Terrace,

Whitehall,

S.W.1.