1950/51
£
$82,000
$293,000
1951/52
1952/53
-$125,000
Total
$500,000
The Governor also promised that a detailed scheme covering this
expenditure would be submitted as soon as possible.
3. In February, 1950, Professor Gordon Brown of the University
was sent to Europe to order steel and fittings to enable work to be
continued. This step became necessary because owing to the American
embargo prices in Hong Kong have risen beyond all reasonable levels
and materials are becoming unobtainable. He obtained options in
Britain on all the fittings required and in Belgium for 750 tons of
steel. The fittings are for staff flats, the Students Union, the
extension to the Main Building, a new Pathology building, new
accommodation for Chemistry, a new Library, a new Dining Hall and a
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new Clinical Centre. The stoel requirements are as follows:
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requirements
Staff Flats, Block I
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#1 2
55 tons
55
19
Students Union
Chemistry Building
Main Building and Great Hall
Extensions
Medical Buildings
250
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60 #
50
#1
280
11
TOTAL
750 tons
is estimat tedfa1
cost
To Steel
£42,000
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below
6 Fittings
$30,000
To shipping and contingencies
€28,000
TOTAL
$100,000
4.
If these options are to be taken up it is essential that
the University should be granted the necessary funds as urgently as
possible and it is proposed therefore that funds should be released, as to £50,000 from the Čolonial and Middle Eastern Services Vote for
1950/51 (this money has already been voted); as to the remaining
£50,000 from the £250,000 C.D. and W. allocation already set aside
for the University. This latter proposal has received the endorse-
ment of the Colonial University Grants Advisory Committee and it is
hoped that the grant can be made without delay.
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5.
ja be emphasized that. This application is an
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