CO129-593-3 Rehabilitation of Hong Kong University. For extracted photographs see CN 3-45 12-1-1946 - 27-10-1946 — Page 150

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17th August, 1946.

Sir Mark Young, G.C.M.G., (29) 1. In telegram No.521 of the 6th July

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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.

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 justi.

the maintenance of a University, but th

do believe that a first-class University,

perform a very valuable function in connectior

with our relations with China and the peoples

They of the Far East, and, therefore, they recommend

that the University should be re-established

for this purpose in such a way as wort

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 expenditore

of

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