CO129-593-4 Rehabilitation of Hong Kong University. For extracted photographs see CN 3-45 27-10-1946 - 30-1-1947 — Page 56

Telephone: KENsington 5121. Ext. 412.

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UNIVERSITY OF HONG KONG

TEMPORARY OFFICE AT LONDON COMMAND SCHOOL OF EDUCATION,

ROOM 12,

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178 QUEEN'S GATE,

KENSINGTON, S.W.7.

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29th October, 1946.

Dear Miss Ruston,

The notes on a possible way of cutting down the immediate cost of building by spreading it over, say, 20 instead of 7 years (in the expectation that Hong Kong would be able to take the whole burden from 1955 onward) is intended for use if the Committee's proposals are too costly.

I had not anticipated a request to Hong Kong for more than £60,000 and was prepared to pare down our expenditure to save the difference between £60,000 and £83,500 in the hope that endowments or guaranteed annual grants from the Dominions, the Boxer Trust and the local Chinese would help materiall5 to bridge the gap. Hence in my letters to Morse, I have not gone beyond £60,000 as Government's con- tribution. As these additional contributions are only hopes and the only one about which there is any degree of certainty is that from local Chinese (the Alumni Association of the University are already preparing appeals in Hong Kong, Shanghai, Canton,. Nanking and Malaya) I thought the less said about them at present the better.

Yours sincerely,

to

Miss Ruston,

The Colonial Office.

(D. J. Sloss)