proper should not produce a medical and health service
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as efficient and (what is even more important) ge
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conscientious as the local produse in liong Kong has
unquestionably proved itself.
In the other technical departments local
recruitment, except for comparatively subordinate
posts, was less advanced. Hong Kong has been
described as the engineer's paradise, and for the
construction and maintenance of roads and reclamations
and waterworks and harbour works the very highest
qualifications were necessary however high the cost.
The Hong Kong University produced a steady flow of
graduates from the engineering faculty (vivil,
Mechanical and Electrical) with good academic
qualifications, but, apart from a number of land
surveyors, the Public Works Department employed
almost none of these. If a prognostication is
allowable, the success or failure of China's
modernization may well depend largely upon her
ability to produce engineers who can not only
answer examination papers but who have undertaken
the practical training and moreover appreciated
the professional prestige that go with the English
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