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HONG KONG UNIVERSITY ADVISORY COMMITTEE

CONFIDENTIAL

Draft Minutes of the Third meeting or the Committee held in the Conference Room at the Colonial Office, Downing Street on Monday, the 4th March, 1946 at 2.30 p.m.

Present:-

Dr. R.. Priestley (in the Chair) Mr. Walter Adans

Mr. F. Burney

Mrs. L. Forster

Professor W.J. Hinton

Dr. Kauntze

Mr. A. Morse

Sir George loss

Professor L.. Fenson

Sir Humphrey Frideaux-Brune Mr. D.. Sloss

Mr. N.L. Smith

Miss A.M. Ruston.

1. The Minutes of the last meeting were confirmed

2. The Chairman asked if it would be possible to obtain a rough plan of the site of the University in Hong Kong and an indication of the replanning proposed more adequately to use the site. The Chairman also enquired whether an indication of the cost of starf could be provided.

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3. (a) Mr. Sloss reported that scientific instrument makers could suply sentiel basic equipment for Chemistry, mysics and Biology not earlier than September next in England: that for export the leading British scientific instrument makers were combining their resources and asked ir the Committee approved the view that there was in these conditions no profit in calling for estimates from the different makers. The Chairman re lied that the British universities had concluded that separate estimates were no longer of value.

(b) He reported also that he was in correspondence with the Registrar of the University, who before returning to Hong Kong had asked for certain assurances. This matter will be dealt with immediately by the small executive committee set up in London by the Secretary of State.

4. Sir George Moss emphasized that in any planning for the University the Committee should recognise the primacy of English. He thought that

the Chancellor

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