CO129-591-2 Hong Kong University- award of degrees to medical students whose studies were interrupted by war.... 26-2-1943 - 19-12-1945 — Page 140

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DRAFT. S.0.LETTER

A. MORSE, ESQ., .B.E.,

HONG KONG AND SHANGHAI BANKING

CORPORATION,

9 GRACECHURCH STREET, E.C.3.

Draft D. in front of (20)

FURTHER ACTION.

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FOR MR. GENT'S SIGNATURE

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My dear Morse,

now practically

We have antidot concluded the

arrangements for establishing by

Order-in-Council an Emergency Committee

to grant Hong Kong medical degrees.

I enclose a copy of the draft Order-in-

Council for your information.

As you know the purpose of

arranging for the grant of such degrees

is in order that those medical students

whose studies in Hong Kong were

interrupted by the war and who eventually

graduated at Universities in free China

may be entitled to be registered for

practice in Hong Kong at the earliest

possible moment after the liberation of

the Colony. The shortage of doctors is

and will be serious and we are anxious

that no qualified man should be lost to

us x through technical difficulties.

Degrees conferred by this Emergency Committee (to be known as "The University of Hong Kong Medical Degrees Emergency Committee") will have the same validity

in Hong Kong as if they had been

conferred at a congregation of the whole

University

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