CO129-615-6 Royal Institute of International Affairs- paper on future of Hong Kong 30-12-1947 - 8-1-1948 — Page 8

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in England was thus based primarily on the grounds of public economy and by no means aimed at the training up of a staff against the time (as elsewhere) of ultimate

independence.

All the salary acales of Government officers in Hong Kong are at the moment in process of readjustment; but however this may result it is certain that the

gap between European and Asiatic will remain as

The standards of life pronounced as in the past. even during local residence are conventionally far apart; and for the European officer must be added family passages for home leave, remittances for education of children at home, and an ever-mounting

bill for sterling pensions.

It has been in the Government Medical Department that the process of local substitution has chiefly advanced, and this has been possible chiefly because of the extremely high standard of the medical faculty in the Hong Kong University, so high indeed as to fulfil the stringent requirements of the British Medical Council for registrable qualifications.

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seems no reason why the numerous Universities in china

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