CO129-610-2 Rehabilitation of Hong Kong University 9-1-1948 - 18-1-1949 — Page 65

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My dear Lady Cripps,

Home Farm,

LEWKNOR. Oxford.

October 19th 1948.

Sent from Itag kang monobly

before (75) wishes there and

certainly before (17) did

I have had letters this last week from both the Governor of Hong Kong and the Vice Chancellor of the University, on the subject of Reconstruction Grants to the University.

As I think we have fallen between Foreign Office and Colonial Office, I am writing to you to ask Sir Stafford's advice.

Since he came to the Treasury, we have got the £250,000 from the Treasury: but (as a result (?) the Colonial Welfare Committee have withdrawn the £250,000 we had hoped to get from them.

Malaya and the West Indies have got very large grants.

I know Ronald Adams considers Hong Kong University important from the British Council point of view: but we badly need the £250,000 more, if we are to be of some use to the British Council, and to take our place in Sino- British Relations. This argument however does not interest the Colonial Office!

I am writing for advice before I ask Creech Jones for an interview.

Yours ever

R.0. Hall.

(Bishop of Hongkong).