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Engineering (who need not by Statute necessarily be a Professor of Mechanical Engineering), that he should

be ex officio Dean of the Faculty; and that he will be assisted by a staff of Lecturers (partly we would hope recruited from the ablest products of the University itself) who in the various departments would be adequate to give instructions on the lines required.

These changes when they can be carried out without

injustice to the present staff would we are convinced result in a better organization and a better discipline throughout the Faculty as well as securing an

appreciable economy.

26. From the Departments of Mechanical and Electrical Engineering may in time be derived in fuller measure than at present those advantages for British export trade to which we have already alluded. And we shall later on stress the desirability from

this point of view of reinforcing the work of the se departments.

27. The Department of Civil Engineering must be evalued somewhat differently. Unlike the other two departments there is not much hope, except very indirectly, of obtaining from it those material benefits which will assist Imperial trade. For this reason it is hardly to be expected that firms in the United Kingdom will be anxious to provide gratuitously practical post-graduate apprenticeships for the

students concerned. And yet it is just in this field, taking an altruistic view, that the Hong Kong University can at present and for the next few years perhaps be of the greatest benefit to China. Nor is it surprising that