CO129-567-12 Hong Kong University 24-1-1938 - 24-1-1938 — Page 79

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January

1939.

53611/38 14K. meeting of

Inspectors the desirability of appointing a woman

Inspector could be considered in the light of the

opinion of the Advisory Committee."

(a) Mr. Mayhew reported as follows:

Calenies

(i) Hong Kong University. When the Report

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of the University Committee (1937) was published last year

it had aroused opposition in certain quarters in the

Colony, and had given rise to a suggestion by the

Advisory Committee that a review of its findings, and

of the whole question of University policy, in the light

of expert opinion from this country was needed.

This suggestion had been communicated by the

Secretary of state, shortly after publication of the

Report, to the Hong Kong Government, hich deprecated

such a course at present on the grounds that there was

definite evidence of the existence in Hong Kong of a

strong public opinion against any delay in proceeding

with the internal reforms of the University which had

been recommended, and that, if there were any suspicion

that the Report were to be side-tracked, the result

might be the resignation of most of the European unofficial

members of the Court and Council of the University,

and possibly also of certain of the Chinese members.

For this reason, and in view of the concurrence

of both the Governor and the Vice-Chancellor in the action

which was proposed to be taken by the University authorities

on the Report, it had been decided to adopt the Governor's

strong recommendation that the suggestion of an enquiry by

outside experts in the near future should not be pursued

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