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 167

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Present

HONG KONG UNIVERSITY ADVISORY COMMITTEE

Confidential

DRAFT MINUTES OF THE FOURTH MEETING OF THE COMMITTEE HELD IN THE CONFERENCE ROOM AT THE COLONIAL OFFICE, DOVER HOUSE ON MONDAY MARCH 11TH 1946 AT 2.30..

Mr. C. Cox (in the Chair)

Mr. Walter Adams

Mr. E. Burney

Mrs. L. Forster

Professor W.J. Hinton

Dr. Kauntze

Sir George Moss

Professor L. M. Penson

Sir Humphrey Prideau-Brune

Mr. D. J. Sloss

Mr. N.L. Smith

Miss A.M. Ruston

Brigadier D. M. MacDougall, Chief Civil Affairs Officer of the

Military Administration in Hong Kong was present during the earlier

part of the meeting.

Apologies for absence were received from Dr. Channon,

Sir Herbert Eason, Mr. A. Morse, Dr. Priestley and Dr. Venn.

1. The draft minutes of the last meeting were approved.

2.

Mr. Sloss reported that a telegram had been sent to Hong Kong

asking for plans of the site of the University if they could be

found.

3. Mr. Sloss also reported that Professor Redmond had been unable to get a passage from Ireland but would appear at the next

meeting of the Committee to discuss the case for or against

the retention of the Faculty of Engineering.

4. The Chairman invited Brigadier MacDougall to speak about

opinion in Hong Kong on the re-opening of the University.

Brigadier MacDougall said that he wished to plead for the

earliest possible re-opening and that in this he expressed the

views also of the Commander in Chief and the Governor, Sir Mark Young.

It was partly a matter of prestige and partly to arrest the drift

of Hong Kong students to universities in China.

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Even if it meant

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a certain improvisation, he thought that an attempt should be

made to open the University in the Autumn of this year.

the Chinese universities in what had been Occupied China were

already open.

Mr. Cox