Enclosure 2.
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An extract from the Speech made by the Vice-Chancellor of Hong Kong University (Sir William Horn ell) on
Congregation Day.
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When I last addressed the congregation I referred to the visit to the University in 1932 of the British Economic Mission to the Far East, and I told you how that mission, after deploring the per- reation of China by American culture and the conse- quent prejudice to British trade in that country, insisted that immediate steps should be taken to increase the number of Chinese students who pass from China to Universities, technical institutes and work- shops in Britain. So far as the passing of Chinese students to Universities in Britain is concerned the position is what it was. But British manufacturers have not been idle. During 1932 three of our engineering graduates went as student-apprentices to British firms. One to the British Thomson-Houston Co. Ltd., one to the betropolitan-Vickers Electrical Export Co., and the third to Messrs, Norris Henty and Gardners. I am proud to be able to tell you that all these student-apprentices are doing well, and I take this opportunity of recording the University's gratitude to Messrs. Butterfield and Swire, who, acting in co-operation with Messrs. Alfred Holt and Co. provided each of these students with a free
passage to England.
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