CO129-558-10 Hong Kong University- engineering faculty 3-1-1936 - 11-2-1936 — Page 12

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Mr.

Mr.

Mr.

Sir C. Parkinson.

Sir G. Tomlinson.

Sir C. Bottomley.

Sir J. Shuckburgh

Permt. U.S. of S.

Parly. U.S. of S.

Secretary of State.

DRAFT.

further activities that are being

planned in connection with that school.

The local confidence which these arrange-

ments are understood to have inspired

makes any lack of co-operation between

the University Faculty and local industry

the more undesirable.

A University Faculty is presumed

to prepare students for positions of

responsibility and scope superior to

those for which a technical school is

adapted.

Though such positions may be

few in number in the Colony of Hong

Kong or the Straits Settlements, it

FURTHER ACTION.

will be recalled that one, if not the

chief, object for which the University

was founded was the training of Chinese

for appointments in their own country,

and it was no doubt in consequence of

this declared intention that the

Chinese Government at Pekin and at

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