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HONG KONG UNIVERSITY ADVISORY COMMITTEE

Draft Minutes of the NINTH Meeting of the Committee held at the Colonial Office on Tuesday, 28th May, 1946.

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Present: Mr. C. W. Cox

Mr. Adams

Mrs.

Forster

(In the Chair)

Professor Hinton

Professor Penson

Mr.

Sloss

Sir Humphrey Pridsa-Brune

Dr. Kauntzc.

Mr. Cox was heartily welcomed on his return after his illness.

Confirmed minutes of the meeting held on Thursday, May 16th.

Apologies for absence received from Mr. N. L. Smith Sir Herbert Eason, Dr. Priestley, Sir George Moss, Dr. Venn and Miss Ruston were recorded.

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Mr.

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Burney and Dr. Channon were unable to be present.

The Committee decided to consider first the abbreviated draft report. After considerable discussion of details it was Resolved (a) that Mr. Adams be asked to take in hand a revision

of Ports I and II of the Draft Report to strengthen the matter of Part II by the inclusion of arguments stressed by members of the Committed. It was lcft to him to combine the two parts if he thought desirable.

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(b) Consideration of Part IV of the Report (Finance) be

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(c) that as the Committes did not approve the summery

Science,

outline of a "bluc print" in the revised Part III, the carlier form be used after the section on a Faculty of Arts had been reconsidered by Professor Penson, the section on the Faculties of Architecture and Engineering by Dr. Priestley, and the section on the Faculty of Medicine by Dr.Kauntze.

The Committee considered proposals for the breaking up of maximum salaries of members of the staff into Basic Pay, Oversons Pay, and Family Allowances.

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that it approved a common basic pay for domiciled and overseas staff and the principle of family allowances: provided the basic pay and overseas pay taken together, apart from Family Allowance, was sufficient to attract good candidates from Great Britain and the Dominions.

that (i) the proportion each of these parts bors to another, and (ii) the formulation of scales of pay and the maxima was a matter for decision by the competent University body.

that in presenting a tentative estimate in the Report expenditure on salaries based on maxima should be presented but that the possible saving arising from (i) further employment of Chinese, (b) the employment of a proportion of unmarried European men and of European women should be pointed out in a note.

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