CO129-558-10 Hong Kong University- engineering faculty 3-1-1936 - 11-2-1936 — Page 4

Mr. Gent.

Engineering Faculty of Hong Kong University

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1.

Please see below :

Note by Mr. Strickland.

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Hong kong

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3,4 & 5.

6.

Mr. Strickland, as you

probably know, is an expert on co-operative credit

work (I.C.S. retired) who has visited and advised

X several of the dependencies. His note, no.1,

summarises what he said in a talk with me after his

return from a recent visit to advise the Nankin

Government.

My letter to Sir James Currie, Lord Lugard and Dr.

McLean who I knew would be particularly interested

in the substance of Mr. Strickland's note.

Their views on Mr. Strickland's note.

A note prepared by myself in the light of the

replies received from the three members of the

Advisory Committee referred to above and amended

by Lord Lugard. In its present form it is

accepted by all these three members who agreed that

it would be useful if either this note, or anyhow

the substance of it, could be communicated by F. E.

Dept. confidentially to the present Governor who,

as Chancellor of the University, or because of the

influence that the Governor naturally has on

University affairs, might be able to institute

enquiries and possibly to get something done.

My letter no.2 on the file explains the

difficulties in the way of getting the views of the

Advisory Committee as a whole on the subject.

I

do not, indeed, feel that it is necessary to do so.

The three members that I have consulted really

represent our expert contribution to the subject.

P.TO.

Port

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