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been referred to the Hong Kong University Consulting Committee

in London for recruitment. This Committee of which Sir Charles

Addis is Chairman still exists (see page 68 of the University

Calendar for 1931) but I have never made any use of it. I

believe that in the University's earliest days the Committee

was useful, but it made, to my knowledge,at least three serious

blunders in connexion with the recruitment of teachers and

others for the University Staff.

5.

It appears from the Minutes of the Senate that the

Consulting Committee met in London on the 18th June and the

8th July 1919, and selected persons for five of the posts

which had been referred to them. Among the persons selected

was a ir. A.E. Parker who was put forward for the Chair of

Pathology. A minute recorded by the Senate at a meeting held

on the 26th August 1919, shows that Professor G.P. Jordan had

authorized the Consulting Committee to make the appointments

without reference to the University and that the Senate subae-

quently ratified Professor Jordan's action. Incidentally the

Senate has, under the University Ürdinance, no power of appoint-

ment; consequently the action of that body in ratifying the

action of the Pro-Vice Chancellor in this commexion was ultra

vires.

6.

The names of the five persons recommended for ap-

pointment went before the University Council on the 12th Sep-

tember 1919. Four were appointed but "the Council referred

back to the Senate their recommendation of Dr. A..Parker for

the new appointment of Professor of Pathology." "The Regie-

trar was instructed, pending a further resolution from the

Senate to send a preliminary cable to the London Committee re-

questing that Dr. Parker's appointment might be delayed and

that intimation might be given to Dr. Wang that his application

is still under consideration." There were present at this

meeting/