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Report.

2. The Hong Kong University is an institu- tion constitutionally separate from the Govern- ment of the Colony.

Resolutions of Senate and Faculties.

(i) That the Senate desires to point out in connexion with paragraph 2 of the Report that the University, while constitutionally separate from Government, is not in fact an autonomous in- stitution, in so far as the composition of the University Council, which by the University Ordinance is the executive body of the Univer- sity, provides for 19 members of whom (a) seven are members because they arc Government Officers, (b) one is the Treasurer of the Univer- sity, (c) three are members because they are the Chinese members of the Legislative Council of the Colony, (d) two are appointed by the Governor, (e) one is appointed by the Committee of the Hong Kong General Chamber of Com- merce, (f) one is the Chief Manager or person for the time being in charge of the business of the Hongkong & Shanghai Banking Corpora- tion, and (g) only four members owe their seats on the Council to the fact that they are members of the University staff.

(ii) That the present annual subsidy from public funds, which would be generous if given to an autonomous institution, is in fact much less than commensurate with the degree of public control established by the present constitution of the Council.

Resolutions of Council.