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(2) That closer co-operation is needed between the University's scientific staff and local commercial firms and industrial undertakings so that the tech- nological service which the University could and should render to local trade may be more generally known and more readily made use of; that the Univer- sity Council should aim at making this technological service as effective as possible.

(3) That in the matter of the education of mechanical and electrical engineers the University should formulate announce and adhere to a definite policy, having in view the admittedly necessary training of these graduates in commercial workshops; that while the University would be wise to arrange facilities, whenever possible, for sending such graduates to be apprentices in British works, it is desirable that some definite scheme should be worked out in consultation with local engineering firms for the practical training in Hong Kong, either in accordance with the "sandwich" system or by a scheme of post-graduate apprenticeship, for those mechanical and electrical engineering graduates for whom facilities for being sent to apprenticeships in British works can not be made available.

(4) That the greatest technical education need of the moment is the train- ing of mechanics and other workers in constructive trades on such practical and theoretical lines that a class of locally produced supervisors and foremen may be evolved, this class being needed not only for local undertakings but also for constructive work in China and elsewhere; that the way to produce such prac- tical and responsible workers is by a suitable system of pre-apprenticeship education followed by an apprenticeship in which the practical training in the works will be supplemented by technical and other education in evening classes.

(5) That the Salesian Institute should be encouraged and assisted financially to extend its facilities for the training of artizans for the building trade and other craftsmen.

(6) That the Education Department of the Colony should consider the feasibility of making manual instruction and other forms of hand and eye training more effective in the general schools of the Colony of all grades.

116. Our immediate recommendation is the establishment of a Technical School on the lines advocated in this Report. We regard this as a development which is very urgently needed. In the interval which is bound to elapse before the Tech- nical School can start work we would urge that a sum of at least $4,000 be placed annually at the disposal of the Director of Education to enable the Technical Institute to organize and maintain evening classes for the apprentices at or near the Kowloon and Taikoo Docks.

117. We regret that two of our members, Professor C. A. Middleton Smith and Mr. A. S. MacKichan should have left the Colony before our Report was formulated. To send the Report to these gentlemen would involve indefinite delay nor would it be practicable to attempt to arrive at an agreed report, in consultation with persons who are so far away. We therefore submit the report under the signatures of the six members (including the Chairman) who are now in Hong Kong. Though neither Professor C. A. Middleton Smith nor Mr. MacKichan can be regarded as in any way responsible for what the Report contains we have secured the agree- ment of each to our main recommendation-namely the establishment of a Technical School.

118. We desire to thank the General Committee of the Hong Kong General Chamber of Commerce for so kindly placing at our disposal a room in which we could meet and for lending us the services of the Chamber's Secretarial Staff. We thank Mr. M. F. Key, Mr. E. R. Price, and Miss Woolley for the help that they have rendered,