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that it should stand and make it serve the

purpose for which it was intended.

Such

a University the Hongkong Covernment

people

and xxxix cannot be expected to finance

They should contribute, as they did and to

the extent they did, before the war, for

the reconstituted University will serve

what need for higher education they have,

not worse but better than before.

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But

the main issue is one the Foreign Office

and Colonial Office must decide and the

main cost will be for the British people

and Government to meet. This is the essential

issue for decision and we have therefore

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set it first in our

Report

and have endeavoured

to marshal the arguments for and against.

We go on to set out the minimum that in our

opinion any British University so situated.

should possess, and we have endeavoured very

roughly - no more is possible at this juncture

to assess the cost. As part of our Terms of

Reference we have been asked to report upon

the University's immediate needs. Txinax

This we have done though we have subordinated

this part of our task to what we consider

to be the overriding problem and the over

riding need.

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What we purp propose in this report

can be carried out without prejudice to

the major decisions upon the attinete fate