CO129-593-2 Rehabilitation of Hong Kong University. For extracted photographs see CN 3-45. Includes 32 photographs depicting-... 10-1-1945 - 20-1-1946 — Page 200

My dear Channon,

10th May, 1945.

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In connection with the University of Hong Kong there are certain matters which will demand quick action on the liberation of the Colony.. For example, it will be necessary to revive the Medical School as soon as possible. As you may know, the Hong Kong Planning Unit in consultation with us has been giving some thought to this question, but our feeling is that detailed plans in regard to the assembling of staff and equipment for the University could best be conducted by a select group of persons with experience er of University administration or both, rather than that the work should be attempted either by the Colonial Office alone or by the Hong Kong Planning Unit (which in due course,before the liberation of the Colony, may be expected to move off to the East).

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experienced people to act as an Advisory Committee. It would no doubt be possible, by Order-in-Council, to endow euch a body with statutory powers to act on behalf of the authorities of the University, but on the whole we think it might be preferable to set up an advisory committee if, as we believe, a sufficient number of persons can be found to act in the faith that their actions will be ratified, at the instance of the Colonial Office and the future Hong Kong Government, by the University Authorities on the liberation of Hong Kong. want to consider suitable names of reference.

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One of the first functions of such a Committee would be to consider what essential staff would be required, and at what stages.\ Possibly a whole time paid "secretary" would be found to be needed, in the planning stage who would concern themselves with practical details & concerned with the restoration of the University without prejudice to the wider issues which have been touched on from time to time as to whether the University should in the future mainly serve local needs or whether it should be visualised as an effective medium for the expression of

Dr. H. J. Channon.

Riverham. Grassendale Park, Liverpool. 19.

British

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