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REVIEW OF THE YEAR

this grant was supplemented by a further HK$4 million from Colonial Development and Welfare funds to enable the University to go ahead with plans for the reconstruction of the main building and the great hall, the Duncan Sloss School of Engineering and Architec- ture, a chemistry building, a pathology building, a students' union, blocks of staff flats and the Vice- Chancellor's lodge. Work is now well advanced and the Vice-Chancellor's lodge and the Duncan Sloss school have been completed. Reconstruction of the main building and great hall is finished and one block of flats was occupied during the year, while a start has been made on the chemistry building. Plans for further flats have been drawn up and plans for the students' union and pathology building are in the course of preparation.

The tables on pages 22 and 23 give a financial summary of Colonial Development and Welfare expen- diture up to the end of December, 1952.

On New Year's Eve (December 31st, 1952), the Legislative Council passed a resolution approving the gift of eight million Hong Kong dollars (£500,000) to the United Kingdom as a practical expression of the Colony's loyalty to Her Majesty the Queen and to help to relieve the heavy expenditure being incurred by Her Majesty's Government in the United Kingdom on the defence of the free world and on the reinforce- ment of the garrison of the Colony. This sum is additional to the sixteen million Hong Kong dollars already contributed annually to the cost of reinforcing the Colony's garrison, making the total contribution from Hong Kong one and a half million pounds in in the current financial year.

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