54147/46. Confidential.
Colonial Office,
Downing Street, 8.W.1.
17th August, 1946.
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1. In telegram No.521 of the 6th of July you asked what progress was being made by the Committee set up by the Secretary of State to consider the future of Hong Kong University. The Committee's report is being printed and a copy will, of course, be sent to you formally, after it has been submitted to the Secretary of State, but meanwhile you may like to have the enclosed advance proof copy. For reasons which will, I am sure, be clear to you on reading it, the report must, for the present at least, be regarded as confidential.
2. You are, I think, already familiar with the broad recommendations which the Committee make; namely that they do not consider the needs of the Colony alone justify the maintenance of a University, but that they do believe that a first-class University might perform a very valuable function in connection with our relations with China and the - peoples of the Far East. They therefore recommend that the University should be re-established for this purpose in such a way as worthily to represent British scholarship and the British way of life. They estimate that the re-establishment of the University on an appropriate scale will call for an expenditure of approximately £1,000,000 capital and £85,000 annually from sources other than those now available to the University.
SIR MARK YOUNG, G.G.M.G.
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