CO129-593-4 Rehabilitation of Hong Kong University. For extracted photographs see CN 3-45 27-10-1946 - 30-1-1947 — Page 22

From Colonial From

Territories

Hong Kong Chinese

123

From Malaya.

92

"Others" who were

pupils in Hong

Kong Schools:

59

From Canada and

Australia

From the Dutch

East Indies,

Philippines etc.

From the China

mainland

274

Dominions

16

16

For the year 1941 the figures were:

398

23

From

Foreign Territories.

38

122

22

160

= Total 450

229

= Total 650

For the year 1950, the estimated figures are:

390

30

260 = Total 680

There

3.

broadly spent in

Further proposals are already existing based on the

conception of a fifty-fifty division of expenditure over

next ten years as between United Kingdom funds (other than

C.D. and W.) and Hong Kong and Colonial Development funds.

As the period under consideration is extended, the proportion

of His Majesty's Government's contribution to the aggregate

expenditure becomes progressively smaller.

The proposals contemplate a considerable increase in the

This increase is to

liability of the Hong Kong Government.

even

some extent inevitable since; were it decided merely to

re-establish the University on the pre-war bases the question

of its restoration and maintenance would still arise, the

University's income being insufficient to meet the cost of

maintenance eines before the war, and if it were decided to

disolve the University, the Hong Kong Government would be

faced with total financial responsibility for higher education

in the Colony and would lose the benefit of the Universitel endowments.