CO129-538-2 Hong Kong University 23-6-1932 - 15-3-1933 — Page 247

UNIVERSITY

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Tel. No. 28056.

Code: A. B. C. 5th. Ed.

Arthur Mayhew Esq., 2, Richmond Terrace,

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Whitehall S.W.1 LONDON, ENGLAND.

OF HONG KONG.

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7th September, 1932.

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11 OCT 1932

FFICE

Dear Mayhew,

I have to thank you for your letter of the 10th August,

1932, acknowledging receipt of the Report on Chinese Studies. I

agree that it would be better not to put the report before the

Advisory Committee on Education for the Colonies, until it has been

before the Senate, Council and Court of the University and the

University has decided on its policy.

As a matter of fact the income of the University has been

diminished by £1900 a year owing to the conversion of the 5% War

Loan. This may make it necessary for us to postpone the appointment

of a Reader in Chinese. The man we want is apparently very difficult

to find.

You were quite right in supposing that the University has

decided to refer most of its vacancies which are recruited in

England to the Universities Bureau. My object in writing to you

about the possibility of finding a Reader, is that I thought you might