CO129-558-10 Hong Kong University- engineering faculty 3-1-1936 - 11-2-1936 — Page 9

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confidence of the most important

representatives of the local engineering

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industry, including some who at the start

were ready to support the University, in the

hope that it would meet their practical needs

and supply Chinese employees capable of

filling in due course posts of considerable

responsibility.

These firms seem to have

been forced into encouraging students who

show promise to come to this country in

order to receive the right kind of training,

since they consider that those responsible

for the department are not studying local

needs and conditions with sufficient care.

Such a result would obviously involve

unnecessary expenditure in maintaining an

expensive Faculty which (if the facts are as

represented) has proved unequal to the task

for which it was intended.

It