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phases and amazing development with sympathy and understanding, and in spite of language difficulties and nationalist feeling, common to all men, they helped to lift relationships on to a plane undreamed of twenty years ago.

A goodly structure of wholesome, profitable relationships with the Chinese can be built up on the foundations laid by the former Staff not only in China but also in Hong Kong where relations between Staff and Student were always on the highest plane.

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III. Seventh page.

The Professor of Gynaecology and Midwifery is omitted from Staff suggested for the Medical Faculty',

Should the total of Professors not therefore be 20/21 and costs altered accordingly.

III. Last page second line down.

I should prefer the omission of the word 'enthusiasm', 89 it implies that due thought was not given to this matter. Mechanical and Engineering courses are particularly revelant to China's need and were provided in direct response to demand in both Hong Kong and China.

In my view the idea was good, and if it could have been developed with adequate funds and facilities in the Colony, these courses would have been of great benefit to Hong Kong and China and would have redounded to the credit of the University which, to some extent, they have done.

I agree that the absence of factories and large indust- rial concerns in the Colony, and the heavy expense involved in maintaining engineering colleges require their omission from the present scheme.

I think the financial estimates are modest.

I should like to see family allowances introduced into the salary scheme.

I hope the Advisory Committee may make a recommendation in favour of the appointment of women to senior posts in the new University.

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