CO129-538-2 Hong Kong University 23-6-1932 - 15-3-1933 — Page 204

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Nor does the tale stop here. Through the good

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offices of Mr. Carter the firm's Far Eastern Representative,

Messrs. Crossley Bros., Ltd., have already placed at our

disposal two student-apprenticeships in their works of

Openshaw, Manchester.

For one of these apprenticeships we

have got just the man and he is ready to start at any

moment.

Shippers' Assistance.

Nor is any difficulty in securing a passage for

this would-be apprentice anticipated, for Messrs. Alfred

Holt, in August last, wrote to us quite spontaneously and

placed at our disposal two free passages a year to be

granted to Engineering graduates, these passages being over

and above the two passages previously granted by that firm

jointly with Messrs. John Swire and Sons.

Messrs. Alfred Holt and Co. went further in their

constructive help. At their suggestion and with the

approval of this University's Council, the Liverpool China

Society of which Professor Roxby is the promoter is calling

into being a committee on which practical engineering

employers throughout Britain will sit and the first duty

of this committee will be to semure, either ad hoc or for

general purposes offers of apprenticeships which will be

forward ed with all details of conditions and terms to this

University. The second duty of the committee will be to

maintain contact with apprentices already placed and to

arrange visits or short-term attachments to other works,

should such visits or attachments be considered desirable.

This is perhaps the most encouraging thing that

has ever happened to the University and this my testimony

of the gratitude not only to the University, but also of

the