CO129-535-1 University of Hong Kong- vacancy for Reader in History 12-5-1931 - 22-3-1932 — Page 37

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of the Colony.

This may give the Reader the opportunity

of doing a really useful piece of historical work.

4.

Reader in the University is the name applied to

the teacher who is in charge of a department of study

for which it has not yet been possible to provide a

Chair. The Reader will be in charge of the History

Department of the Faculty of Arts and will be ex-officio

a member of the Faculty of Arts and the Senate.

5.

There are at the moment 128 students in the

Faculty of Arts and of these 90 are men and 38 are women.

Fifty-eight of these students are reading History; 41

men and 17 women. The total number of students in the

University's three Faculties (Medicine, Engineering,

Arts) is at the moment 360 of whom, 38 are women.

6.

There are two Readers in the University of

Hong Kong, viz., the Reader in History and the Reader in

Biology, and the scale of salaries which was fixed for

Readers in 1923 was £600 per annum rising by £25 annually

to £750. When this scale was sanctioned it was arranged

that when a member of the University to whom a sterling

salary has been assigned is in the Colony (and he is held

to be in the Colony except when he is on furlough) he

should be paid in dollars at the average current rate of

exchange for the month as determined by the Colonial

or

Treasurer, at 2/-d whichever is less. In 1929, His

Excellency the Governor referred to a Committee the general

conditions of service under which the Teaching and

Executive Staffs of the University were working, and this

committee recommended for a Reader a salary of £850 a

year, rising by £50 annually to £1,100. Thi recommenda-

tion, which was made on the basis of a 2/-d dollar, was

accepted by the Council and the Court of the University

in December 1929 and an application was subsequently

made to Government for an additional grant of 200,000

dollars