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definitely is need in Hong Kong is a really good technical school (which was in fact already beginning to prove its usefulness), where capable artisan used to manual work can be trained up to higher ags and, if he is proved really worth it, can go on thence to th、 University for the scientific side of his c raft. The relations between the school and the University should be much the same as (apparently) those between the School of Technology at Manchester and the Manchester University. Engineering is not the only subject and Hong Kong itself (unless things have changed) would profit from an improvement in the standard of the building trade. If a forestry and/or agricultural school could usefully be placed in
Hong Kong, it would, I feel sure, fill a need in China, though it is to my mind a question, whether Hong Kong, which in spite of the exchange of staff suggested above cannot help being on an average five years behind the times, will ever be able to compete in these two subjects with the U.K., Europe or U.S.A. What the Chinese need more than anything is forestry in its reclamation aspect and, whether the English type of farming or the Russian, for which I understand Englishmen have been largely responsible, is most quitable, I do not know enough about the countryside of China to say. I doubt however, if the wheat factory methods in U.S.A. or Canada, which have resulted in the Dust Bowl, are of any use to China, and I fancy that in their northern colonization the same symptoms were showing up.
5. If the University were properly endowed, its existing schools were properly run and such schools as say forestry added I think it might very well provide something good enough to attract Chinese from China and make it needless for them to visit Europe or U.3.A. except for a higher level of study altogether.
(Sgd.) G.W.SWIRE
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