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destruction as well as the remarkable growth of Hong Kong has increased the need. For this a sum of about $256,000 (£16,000 Xis needed.
The training of Teachers. Largely increased numbers of students and fuller courses will involve the University in building specifically for this purpose. It is probable that the cost will be about $320,000 (£20,000).
Halls of Residence. A Hall for women is immediately needed as the partial provision made before the war by missionary bodies has ceased, and the number of women students has increased until it is likely always to be at least one-third of the total number.
By September 1950 there will be application for admission to halls from an additional 220 men, whereas at that date there will be less than 70 places for them: nor are private lodgings likely to be available as the housing shortage in the Colony will not be perceptibly less by that date than it is at present. Sir Robert Ho Tung has very generously promised to meet the cost of a Women's Hall up to a total of $1 million (£67,500). A like sum is required to build a hall for men on a site already in the possession of the University.
Housing of staff.
(i) Housing provision was inadequate before the war. In reconstruction, larger houses have been divided into flats, and this provision has been made for six additional families. Any development will produce a shortage which cannot be solved by men living in private houses. These for years will be obtainable only at rents far beyond the means of University officers. It is therefore proposed to build a block of eight flats for senior University teachers and officers, This would cost about $640,000 (£40,000).
(ii) Before the war it was not necessary to house
locally appointed staff. Now men are hardly obtainable unless they can be housed. It is therefore proposed to build a block of twelve smaller flats for assistant lecturers and senior demonstrators. These would cost about $480,000 (£30,000).
Sketch plans and estimates for the project (a) above are prepared, and for (b) and (d) are in preparation.
probably
The total cost of projected building would be about £193,500. Men's Hall and residences would be rent producing, and the manner in which such revenue is to be used is a matter on which the views of the University and of this Government will be submitted at a later stage.
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This additional building will be a useful contribution to the solution of a major social problem of the Colony, and though these building projects do not strictly fall within the scope of this despatch, it has been thought expedient to outline them, in order to complete the picture of the University's needs and its proposals for meeting them.
I have the honour to be,
Sir,
Your most obedient,
le servant,
Mama mole
GOVERNOR.
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