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MINUTES of a meeting held at Government House on Wednesday,
December 2nd, 1931, at 10 a.m.
PRESENT: H.E. Sir William Peel, K.C.M.G., K.B.E., M.A.
Sir Reginald Johnston, K.C.M.G., C.B.E., M.A.,LL.D.,
Hon. Mr. W. T. Southorn, C.M.G., B.A.
Sir William Hornell, C.I.E., M.A.
Mr. G. P. de Martin, M.B.E., M.A.
Mr. W. B. Finnigan (Registrar).
In opening the proceedings His Excellency referred to
the memorandum prepared by the Vice Chancellor dealing with
the recommendations of the Economic Mission and welcomed
the opportunity of a consultation with Sir Reginald Johnston
with regard to those features of the Economic Mission's
Report and his own investigations into the state of education
in China which affected the University of Hong Kong.
Sir Reginald Johnston explained that the China
Universities Committee had received a grant of £200,000 out
of the British portion of the Boxer Indemnity and that it
was hoped that this sum would be so invested as to produce
an income of £9,000 a year. He went on to say that he had
been sent out by the China Universities Committee as the
head of a small delegation to visit Universities in China in order to survey the situation and to consult the Board
of Trustees for the Boxer Indemnity with a view of securing
their co-operation and of dovetailing their respective
schemes for the utilisation of the funds at their disposal
so as to prevent possible overlapping of proposals. Sir
Reginald explained that in a report which he would soon be
preparing for his committee it would be proposed that after providing a central organisation in London at a cost of
about £1,500 a year the balance available, namely, £7,500
should be spent on
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