At the opening to the Peel Engine-Jering Laboratory in Hongkong Sir William Hornell drew attention to the University's success with the graduates sent to England as apprentices under the system in which the University has been pioneering China for twenty years. Sir William pointedly remarked:
we do feel ita bit hard that there should be, as it were, a preference for those who come from other parts of China, over our engineers in connec-lon with these student" appren-
'The difficulties in the way of com: mending Sir William Hornell's logical' jand justifiable hint are well-known and understandable. At the same Gime it would be regrettable if British authorities in other parts of China and in Shanghai failed to recognize the admirable work consistently done by the Hongkong University in taining engineering students in British standard specifications in engineering. 'A number of Shanghai students have most successfully passed through the Hongkong University's Engineering} /Faculty and the experience of those young men should certainly prove that the engineering graduates of Hongkong have a special claim for consideration in connection with any} apprenticeship scheme in England, by Feason of their specially good techni-al and social training in the Colony. Whether the possibility of holding examinations in Canton, as well as in Nanking and Peking can be effectively taken into account, must be left: for the experts to decide. There seems fo be much to be said in its favour.
(Tecting-sug-eht-chow-kon 4 MISE LIH)
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