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of

8.

been referred to the Hong Kong University Consulting Comittee

in London for recruitment. Thin Committee of which air harles

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

Glendar 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 thai.

Was

A.B. Parker who was put

Among Among the persons selected

forward for the Chair of

Pathology A minute recorded by the Jenate at a meeting held

on the 26th August 1919, shows that Professor 0.2. Jordan had

authorized the Consulting Committee to make the appointments

without reference to the University and that the Senate subse-

quently ratified Professor Jordan's action. Incidentally the

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

ment; consequently the action of that body in ratifying the

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

vires.

6.

The names of the five peraous recommended for ap-

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

tauber 1919. Four wore appointed but "the Council referred

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

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

trar was instructed, pending a further resolution from the

Senate to send a preliminary cable to the London Comittee 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/