CO129-610-1 Rehabilitation of Hong Kong University 3-1-1947 - 29-12-1947 — Page 164

Dear Sant Mayle.

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GOVERNMENT HOUSE

HONG KONG

8th April, 1947.

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Thank you for your letter of 21st March about the

recommendations of the Hong Kong University Advisory Committee.

The delay is, as you realise, disappointing not to myself alone

but to every one out here who knows the position and particularly

to Sloss, with whom I have just been having a talk on the subject.

As regards the question of giving the Advisory Committee's Report

a wider circulation, my own view is that until the decision is given

it is not at all desirable that any publicity should be given to

the recommendations, some of which if known might well give rise

to unnecessary, or at any rate premature, apprehensions as to the

continued existence of the University as such. Sloss agrees with

my view and we are both content that the Report should continue to

be kept strictly confidential pending the decision, which we do

earnestly trust is not going to be much longer delayed.

G. F. Seel, Esq., C.M.G.,

Colonial Office.

incerely

Mark fou

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