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confidential, for the present at least, but its main

recommendation is that the University should be

re-established. The Secretary of State has not yet

seen the Committee's Report and it will of course

have to be considered in conjunction with other

Departments, but I understand that there is a good

prospect that the University will be re-opened soon.

Our hope is that this will be in January

next and I think that, if you agree, this would be a

suitable occasion for a formal presentation, to the University (of the gold trowel Your gesture will;

Leeply I know, be very much appreciated in Hong Kong, the

people of which will recognise how much the Colony

owes to one who not only was the first Chancellor of

will always be the University but is still, remembered as its real

founder.

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