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 246

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harbour board etc. would be the line of development.

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The city was 99 per cent. Chinese a great proportion

of whom came from Canton and other South China ports.

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development

It seemed to him that it the line of development were as he foresaw, they should be no

proceeds of

rift hetween

the higher education in Hong Kong and the products of

the former

If Hong Kong

that education on the ground that they were British

subjects and (their colleagues in Ching on that This

could best be achieved as such interchange of

students and teaching staff as possible.

University came to serve only the narrower needs of

out of louch with the British Colony and were eut adrift from the

authorities in China itself, it seemed to Sir Edward

that the future of Hong Kong would be seriously compromised in 20-50 years' time we should be

relying on the products of Hong Kong University, and

we should therefore ensure that they were entirely

wish friendly and entirely familiar with Chinese students

pereomatly and Chinese thought generally, We could not

This view afford to drop Hong Kong Universi

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University, nor could we afford

to lessen the high aim its founder had for it.

The Chairman said that the meeting was indebted to

Sir Edward for his clear picture and hoped that members

would ask any questions they would like to put, because

Sir Edward might not be able to attend another meeting.

Mr. Sloss asked what was the starting point in the

deliberations of the Committee. He had assumed — and

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this was the point he would like to refer to Sir Edward Could

the that the Committee eorld begin virtually on that ex-

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pression of the views of the Colonial 0 ffice outlined

in Paper No. 3, that is to say, that the question of

maintaining and developing a British University in Hong

Keng was ready the policy of Government in the

Colonial Office and that that policy had more than the

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acquiescence the active approval of the Foreign

Office also

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If that could be the starting point, the

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