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member of the Faculties of Engineering, Arts, and Science, and I

have been, at different times, Dean of all three.

With the retiral of Prof. K.H. Digby, (Surgery) I am

I came out in 1914

as a Lecturer in Engineering, had to tackle an unusual variety of technical subjects to keep the Institution going, and since 1918 I have been Professor of Mathematics, (Pure and Applied).

now senior member of the entire academic staff.

I am also

an Honorary Vice-President of H.K. Institution of Engineers and

Shipbuilders.

Glad to

I was in the local R.N.V.R. As you are yourself aware, (joined 1939) and at the capture of Hong Kong by the Japanese became a P.0.W., and spent 3 years behind barbed wire. say I escaped nearly all the worst effects of our persistent mal-nutrition, and am now entirely fit and full of pep.

We

If, in spite of present doubts and fears, the University should yet be adequately rehabilitated, our ambitions are high.

need

(a)

(b)

(c)

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A new campus (Kowloon Side) No use rebuilding our shattered

shells on the present inadequate site,

New buildings, and expensive equipment, for all our Departments, with ample allowance for expansions and additions.

New appointments, to the extent of 2/3 or 3/4 of the European

Staff.

The following existing Chairs, with several of the

corresponding lectureships, are now vacant:

Physics, Chemistry, Civil Engineering, Mechanical

Engineering, Electrical Engineering, Medicine, Surgery, Pathology,

Anatomy, and Education.

(a) Some revision, of our Constitution.

I find it impossible to estimate with any confidence

the cost of such rehabilitation, but I fancy three millions

sterling would be a very modest all-in figure.

of our

For the honour of Britain, and for the steady enhancing

commercial and cultural relations with China, even much