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(a)

The Asiatic

Petroleum Co. has, since the inception of the Faculty,

supplied the Power-station on a generous scale with free petrol and

fuel oil.

(e) Messrs. Preece, Cardew & Snell, London, have, as our Honorary

3.

Consulting Fngineers, been responsible for many years for the purchase

and inspection of all equipment obtained in the U. K.

The University is surely under some obligation to these people

alone to keep the Fngineering Faculty alive.

The Engineering Faculty, having recovered after a lean period 1925-135 approx., during which the Mechanical and Flectrical Departments fared badly, was in a healthy condition in Dec. 1941, the average number of students during the 5 years preceding the Pacific war being well over 100. A scheme of Post-graduate training in the U. K. for Mechanical and Flectrical engineers, sponsored by the F.B.I. and leading British firms, had put new life into the departments

concerned.

4. The Engineering Faculty has on the whole justified its existence, in spite of the temporary failure of two of its departments to attract

students.

According

5.

It has maintained a high standard of training.

to the annual reports of the London assessors our Final Examination Papers compared favourably with those of London University. Our

degrees have been 'recognised' equally with those of the home universities by the Institutions of Mechanical and Electrical

Engineers and the Post-graduate Diploma courses of the Imperial College of Science are unreservedly open to all our graduates.

Despite the low scales of salary prevailing in China a reasonable proportion of our graduates have sought employment there and many of them have done well. For example, just before Canton fell to the

Japanese, the Director of Public Works and several members of his

senior-staff were H. K. U. graduates. At least three of our graduates have obtained professorial appointments in Chinese

Universities.

The Faculty has undoubtedly been an asset to the Colony. Consulting engineers, architects, engineering firms and (to a lesser extent) the

P. W. Dept. have benefited by the steady supply of well trained and