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Object:
UNIVERSITY OF HONG KONG
SCHEME FOR THE ERECTION OF A CHEMISTRY BUILDING.
May, 1951.
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To provide a new building for the Department of Chemistry, and adequately accomodate greatly increased numbers of pre-medical students, of second-year medical students reading Organic Chemistry, and of science students specializing in a fourth year for an Honours Degree.
The present building, the Northcote Science Building, has been found inadequate for the increased teaching commitments of the experimental Science Departments of Chemistry, Physics, and Biology (Botany and Zoology), in the face or increased numbers of students and of the greater specialization consequent upon the introduction of an Honours Degree in Science. The space at present allocated to the Department of Chemistry in this building is to be used for necessary and minimum expansion of the Departments of Physics and Biology (Botany and 'Zoology). The possibility of adding a fourth storey is still being investigated, but this in itself would not gratify the needs of the three experimental science Departments. It is expected that the need for further additional accommodation in the Departments of Physics and Biology will soon make it necessary to add a fourth storey, to provide each Department with two storeys; but this further expansion is not contained as part of the scheme under reference.
Division of Costs;
Cost of provision of such accommodation is to be divided equally between funds allocated under C.D. & V., and C. & M.E.S. votes, as detailed in the tel. 1900 of 1950 from the Secretary of State for the Colonies to the Governor Hong Kong.
Administrative & Financial Control:
The University of Hong Kong has been recognized as an administering authority for the purpose of administrative and financial control of monies allocated from the C.D. & V. fund. Secretary of State tel. 1900 of Dec. 22, 1950, refers,
Availability of Men & Materials:
Local labour is available for implementation of the project, and is called on by the firm of contractors whose tender for the work is accepted.
Steel for the project has been released by the Belgian Government and is in process of shipment. Fittings and finishings are available on option from the United Kingdom. For purchase of these items sums have been
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