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assistance towards re-establishing University

on 1941 scale? Perhaps you would like at the

same time to suggest the terme for a public

statement regarding the future of the University

to be mado simultaneously here and in Hong Kong.

a Treasury inve pointed out that figures

of annual recurrent expenditure in paragraph 3

of your telegram are close to those in University

Advisory Comittee's Report for recurrent

expenditure on larger project. Presumably this

is due partly to fact that, through no fault of

theirs, Committec's Estimates are inadequate

and out of date. Would you also deal with this

point when putting up proposals referred to above?

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