CO129-594-3 Rehabilitation of Hong Kong University. For extracted photographs see CN 3-45- Advisory Committee- minutes of... 18-1-1946 - 9-4-1946 — Page 107

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until questions of re-staffing and

re-equipment had been considered;

(c) that the Registrar Mr. S.V.Boxer

should return from Australia in

order to reopen the Office of the

University in Hong Kong and that

certain senior members of the

teaching staff including Chinese

should return to Hong Kong to

undertake the preliminary work

necessary before the University could

be reopened and to maintain contact

with students and with Chinese

Universities.

Mr. Sloss reported arrangements already

made for refresher courses for medical graduates

trained in Chinese Universities during the

Occupation. Only on their satisfactorily

completing such courses would they be presented

to the Emergency Medical Degrees Committee in

Hong Kong and admitted as graduates of the

University eligible for registration in

Great Britain.

Difficulties in the way of re-establishing

the University on the lines envisaged by

Lord Lugard were then discussed.

The desirability of inviting Chinese delegates

to U.N.O. at present in this country to meet

the Comittee was debated and it was agreed that

it would be inopportune but that Mr. Sloss

should take any opportunities that occurred to

ascertain their views on the future of the

University unofficially.

Mr. Morse seid that the chief reason for the

failure of the University was lack of financial

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