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 93

It had started with an income of £6,000 per annum. He asked if the necessary financial backing would

be forthcoming now. The Chairman said that the

Committee had already faced up to this problem.

Sir Humphrey Prideaux Brune raised the point

as to whether if all the money required was to hand, would we want to spend it.

Mr. Morse

asked whether the

rehabilitation of the University would be

welcomed as he rather feared that, the attitude of

the Chinese would not be favourable.

He thought

it necessary to decide whether the University can

be reconstructed and whether we can afford it.

Sir Humphrey Prideaux Brune considered that

some solid assurance should be sought and that the

Chinese might be asked to give a definite answer

on this.

The Chairman said that the idea of a Malayan

University should be accepted as the Colonial

Office was pretty well committed to this. He

said the Committee should consider whether it

was to be a University of the sort now envisaged, which would be a saving in the long run, or a

Hong Kong Education Institution, from which he

thought all the distinguished students would be

attracted to the better show at Malaya, and

because Malaya was to have a cheap University,

Hong Kong would not be able to call on its

Chinese.

Mr. Morse raised the point of putting up a

second-class University in Hong Kong. He said

that staffs and money were not forthcoming in

this country: should there be a University at

all in Hong Kong?

The Chairman said he had

raised this matter on the previous item of the