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material permitted, towards patching up the building.
He thought it would be manifestly more economic in
the long run.
Professor Hinton made the suggestion that certain
members of the staff should return in order to give
some evidence of the re-opening of the University.
He thought that perhaps some members of the staff
might be of service or even go into China to establish
contacts. He understood that at least three
Universities would be back by October, one of them
giving a four-years course and the Japanese would be
functioning on the coast in October. Mr. Sloss said
that, in general terms, he agreed but the specific
difficulty was that they had practically no staff left.
There was the repatriation of men who were killed or died
from fighting in internment. They were only left with
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a Professor of Economics; a Professor of Mathematics who
had only about a year of service before retiring; a
Lecturer in Physics, a youngish man, and one engineer who
has less than a year to do (Redman).
Mrs. Forster mentioned the fact that Dr. Gordon King
had an Office in the University.
Professor Hinton said that if it were decided, as he
hoped it would be, that the University would be revived,
there would be an Administrative Office for the Registrar
and himself because there was a tremendous amount of work
needing to be done through that Office before the appointment
of a staff and even after a staff had been appointed.
that were done, and new appointments made, he thought perhaps some of the young Professors could put in a little time in
China.
(At this point Mr. Morse came into the meeting).
Mr. Sloss stated that he had made enquiries in
different parts of the country but there were little
grounds for optimism. Out of the nine appointments
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he said candidates were found for only four and, in fact,
a fair these were no selection in any case, and that was
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