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the year. Eight further staff residences, staff garages, School of Commerce, quarters for University coolies, Lugard Hall, St. John's Hall and Morrison Hall were completed, and work was begun on the Pathology building, Students' Pavilion and Sports Ground (with money donated in a generous response to an appeal by the Vice Chancellor), the provision of a testing laboratory in the Peel Laboratory, a small temporary Hostel for women students, and the completion of the Eu Tong Sen Gymnasium, for which the family of the late Mr. Eu Tong Sen munificently gave $50,000. One hundred and fifty nine cases of books were recovered from Japan and returned to the Library, from which they had been removed during the occupation. The ground floor of the Ho Tung Workshop was released by the Royal Naval Medical Depot. Progress was slow but steady in re-equipping the Library and the Laboratories.

For the financing of the re-establishment programme, the Government of Hong Kong has made available a special fund of $4,000,000, and to meet the inflated running expenses, has increased its annual grant from $455,000 to $1,500,000 per annum. In late summer the Chancellor announced the magnificent gift of $1,000,000 from Sir Robert Ho Tung for the construction of the long-needed Women's Hostel. measure of relief to the urgent need for funds specifically for development, the Treasury has made an ex gratia grant of £250,000, which will make possible a portion of the develop- ment recommended by the Committee appointed at the end of 1945 by the Secretary of State.

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The staff has been increased by the appointmnet of new Professors in Surgery, Medicine, Pathology and Mathematics; by the return after retirement of the Professor of Civil Engineer- ing, at the invitation of the University; and by the appointment of new Lecturers in Physiology, Chemistry, Economics and Psychology, and Junior Lecturers in English and in Electrical and Mechanical Engineering; Part-time Lecturers and some temporary Lecturers were also appointed, in addition to an Adviser to Women Students and a Registrar to succeed Mr. S. V. Boxer who retired. The Lecturers in Physics and Chemistry resigned during the summer vacation. To succeed the present Vice Chancellor, Dr. D. J. Sloss, C.BE., who will retire early in 1949, Professor L. T. Ride, C.B.E. Professor of Physiology, has been elected by the Court of the University.

At the beginning of the year, a University Salaries Com- mittee made its recommendations, and increased scales of pay were announced.

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