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The plans of the 1940 Committee envisaged the rebuilling of the greater part of the existing University. on the 39818 of these plans, taking into account the availability of now accommodation (such as the seed podation for research wor in Marine Zoology already provided in the plans for the new Fisheries Research Institute), and assuming that full use would be made of existing structures (for example, that the Science building completed in 1941 would be used for Chemistry if a new building was constracted to house Physicsthe Committee attempted to estimate a general sun needed for new buildings for a University of the scope it proposed. It took as a starting point the r -wer cost of the 1941 science building and made provision for an average increase of 75 ; over re-war costs in the period dur ng which the building programe could be expected to be carried out (namely, between the third and tenth year after th reo ening of the University). It took into account the needs for additional science laboratories, new Redicial buildings, further students' Hostels, etc., and the special problems raised by the vature of the site The Committee came to the conclusion that, for a plan that would ultimately provide fully twice the pre-ar teaching and residential accommodation, a sum of £600,000 would be needed. This

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years $ 5. Equipment of Laboratories and Libraries firin elated,

becaus availablo The Committe based its estimates of the cost of providing equipment for the laboratories on the US inventories for the re-oquipment of laboratories in devastated areas. on this basic it judged that th following capital expenditure would be required:

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The libraries escaped the hands of the looters, and it did not see that there was need to make provision of a cupital sum for replacement or special expansion.

6. Endowment of chaira.

Chairs in Medicine, surgery and Gynaecology at the University are already partially endowed by the Rockefeller Foundation. The Committee noted that the Irvine Committee made detailed recommendations for the endowment of certain basic chairs in the West Indies University College, to protect the College against sudden fluctuations in colonial resources, and that the Asquith Comission, in addition to endorsing these recommendations, advocated an endowment policy in general in order to give stability to the finances and stuffing of colonisl Universities. In view of the special position and purposes of the future University in Hong Kong, the Comittee strongly favoured the extension of the same principle to Hong Kong and recommenda the endowment of the following seven basic chairs:- English, Chinese, Kathematics, Chemistry, Physics, Social Science, and PhysiologY. This would involve a capital expenditure of 2350,000.

7. Recurrent expenditure on salaries.

The Committee took as a basis of the sulary scheme the rates recommended by the Irvine Committee. In the following table of estimates, it is assumed that all the posts are filled, that the senior staif are at the maxim- of their scales, and that women and men are paid at equal rates. The Committee assumed that the present practice in relation to the holders of clinical chairs

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