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approximately £1,000,000 capital and £85,000

annually from sources other than those now available

to the University.

3.

If this recommendation in favour of the

re-establishment of the University is approved,

there will, I think, be a good case for confining

Financine

Hong Kong's responsibility for expenditure involved, >oth capital and recurrent, (to a small proportion

nd for applying for assistance under the Colonial

ñ evelopment and Welfare Act to meet Hong Kong's

hare. The balance would, in those circumstances,

Lave to come from U.K. funds, subject to the possibility

f one or more of the Dominions making contributions.

his is certainly only a possibility at the moment

ра nd will probably depend very largely on whether it

s decided, as a matter of policy, to invite the

bllaboration of the Dominion Governments.

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The decision on this/recommendation/will. Brouss herefore, depend to a great extent on the Foreign

ffice and Treasury. We are advising the Secretary

b. State to give the recommendation his unqualified

apport in sending the report to Mr. Boving we are

Red precis fusent he have, however, some duty of t -advising him to reserve our position on the first

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mendation of the Committee, namely that the needs

he Colony alone do not justify the maintenance of

University. It is arguable that with a population

a million or more there is, in fact, justification

þr a University or some other institution for the

urpose of providing for higher education, and I believe

hat you yourself were not inclined to accept the

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