CO129-610-3 Rehabilitation of Hong Kong University 15-2-1949 - 7-2-1950 — Page 57

2.

in 1948

this Majesty's Goverment took the lecision in to re-establish the University

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1940 scale, while holding in abeyance the recommendation of the Committee which reported in 1946 that financial assistance should to wade

much larger scale to enable the University to fulfil adequately the wider functions for which it

available as a

had been established.

promised

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At the same time H.M.

free grant unsee to the University of £250000 "for rebobilatation and development.

3. Since then the political background ate