167.
"both unwise and useless" to attempt to fill
the vacant professorships until the future of
the University can be clearly defined.
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8. While we do not accept Sloss's views in
way he their entirety, think perhaps there is some
advantage in deferring the re-opening of the
University until January, 1947, when the position
regarding staff and equipment should be more.
hope, satisfactory and when hope a decision will have
been reached on the future of the University.
9. Sloss has put forward a suggestion that, in
the meantime, an arrangement on the following lines
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might be made so that the facilities of the University might
may be made available for the purpose of higher
education in the Colony at the earliest possible
date
He suggests that the facilities might be my placing them
made available under the direction of a temporary
ad hoc Government Committee for higher education.
We I under taux this
It would be casier
put this proposal into effect
sen formally to re-open the University, dinge no
the less di executive act is required to keep it in its present ane has this
which can
state of suspense,
estand,
continue so long as appointments to the Council and
Senate are not filled. Sloss tells us that, in fact,
a Committee has been established under the Chairmanship
of Professor Simpson, and includes in its membership
Professors Robertson and Gordon King, Morse and
Followes. If this Committee were expanded to
include the Director of Education and such other
Government officials as you think desirable, together
with two or three former Chinese members of the
University Council, it would be the sort of Committee he we have in mind.
10.
It would be necessary, of course, that this
Committee
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