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CONFIDENTIAL

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HONG FONG HIVERSITY ADVIS?RY

COMMITTEE

Draft Minutes of the Fifth meeting of the Committee held in the Conference Room at the Colonial Office, Dover House, on March 25th 1946.

PRESENT:

Mr. C. Cox (In the Chair)

Mr. Adams

Sir Herbert Eason (for the first part of meeting only)

Mrs. Foster

Professor Hinton

Dr. Kauntze

Mr. Morse

Sir George Moss

Professor Penson

Sir Humphrey Prideaux Brune

Dr. Friestley

Mr. Sloss

tr. N... Suith

Miss Ruston

Apologies for absence were received from:

Dr. Channon and Dr. Venn, and Mr. Burney.

Mr. C.P.Fitzgerald (Regional Officer for China at the Headquarters of the British Council) and Professor F. Redmond (Hong Kong University) were present during the carlier part of the meeting.

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The draft minutos of the last meeting were approved.

Mr. Fitzgerald reported on the British Council's plans for China. He said that the main activity in which the Council had engaged so fur had been the subsidising of certain posts and chairs connected with the teaching of English in Chinese Universities. Because of the high cost of living in China at prosent time the salaries paid by the Chinese Universities wore insufficient for Europeans and the Council's assistance enabled English men and women to be appointed when it would not otherwise be possible. At tho present time thuoc such posts were filled and there was a considerable field for expansion.

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Another activity of the Council was the provision of books. library was maintained in the Council's Headquarters at Chunking and it was hoped that more would be established in other places.

The Council also arranged visits to this country. During the current year the visits of fifteen post-graduate studens had boon arranged, six visiting Professors and twaleve to fifteen distinguished visitors. The number varied according to whether the visitors were able to pay part of their expenses. Post-graduate students came for two or three yours, visiting Professors normally for one year for refresher courses and study leave, and distinguished visitors, who were not necessarily academic, for varying periods. Mr. Fitzgerald added that the Council endeavoured to maintain an oven balance as between science and the humanitics but that scientists had porhaps predominated.