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 257

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Provincial Governments who were to pay for the se scholarships found other uses for their money.

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