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in the Medical Faculty will continue, namely that they will be paid a fixed honorarium in lieu of fees for their consultant practice and that the fees will be paid to the University to be used for the development of the Medical School. As this is to some extent a se lf-balancing item it has not been included in the table of estimates. The Committee recommended that the University should consider a scheme of marriage and family allowances, but as this would probably be within the maximum salaries suggested, separate provision is not made for it in the table.

8 The Committee approved of the recommendation of the Asquith

Commission that a scheme of expatriation allowances for externally recruited staff who retain their domicile in the United Kingdom, and for locally recruited staff when deputed for study or duty in the United Kingdom, should be instituted. Basic rates of pay for all staff would be the same; the differences would arise from eligibility for overseas pay or expatriation allowance. In the table the rates shown are not the basic rates but basic rates and full overseas allowances; the Committee considered that it was a matter for the University to decide the proportion between basic rates and overseas allowance and made no attempt in the estimate to decide how much of the annual pay of £1500 for a professor, for example, was attributable to each. It should be noted therefore that the filling of Senior osts by locally recruited Chinese would result in a

reduction in the following estimates.

13 Professors

7 Readers

45 Lecturers

19 Junior or

Part-time

Lecturers

38 Tutors and

£1.500 a year. £1100

•

£ 880

#

.£19,500 £ 7,700 ..£39,600

£ 600

"

...£11,400

Demonstra-

tors

£ 200

11

.£ 7,600

Registrar

and

Librarian £1500

Vice-

Chancellor £2500

"

... 3,000

.£2,500

Provident Fund for above

at 10% a year..

Provident Fund for 7 endowed professors

at 10% a year.

£91,300

£9,130

£1,050

£101,480

£3,000

Clerical staff and servants with

superannuation charges at 5%

£104,480 per annum.

(Note: If the seven basic chairs were not endowed, the total would

be increased by £10,500 to £114,980.)

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Recurrent expenditure on departmental maintenance, etc.

In making an estimate of the annual maintenance expenditure for departments, for scholarships, research, etc., (excluding salaries of staff), the Committee took into account the pre-war expenditure of the University on such items, the estimates for the University College of the West Indies made by the Irvine Committee, and the special purposes of the proposed University (such as the need for a generous provision of scholarships for students from the Chinese mainland). The Committee judged that the following would be required: -

/Grants