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referred to was that, whilst he could not obviously
comit his Committee in advance,he personally felt
confident that they would, in view of Hong Kong's
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particular circumstances and the fact that the Colony
suffered enemy occupation, be sympathetically
disposed towards a suggestion that Central Research
Funds should be used to finance part of the scheme.
He pointed out, however, that the Committee are in
general reluctant to see these Central Research Funds
being put into bricks and mortar rather than into
schemes of research work proper, and that in consequence
it would be up to Hong Kong to make out a case strong
enough to justify 'a departure from their normal
principles.
Such a case might, for example, be based
on the value of a new Institute to research work in
Hong Kong and South China, on the developments in the use and local prepartion of vaccine, and on the fact
that tuberculosis is a particularly important problem
in Hong Kong.
Yours sincerely,
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