Noted the mention of the University's Silver Mace in the China Mail dated 29 November 1949.
"Colonel L. G. Bird of Alton, Hampshire, has been asked by the Hong Kong University to search for the University's Silver Mace which disappeared when the Colony fell during the war.
Colonel Bird hoped to trace the silversmith who made the Mace. He added the Mace was made in London around 1917."
(Following-up an extract from Bernard Mellor's The University of Hong Kong: An Informal History (Hong Kong: HKU Press. 1980.31. which can be read at: https://www4.hku.hk/hongrads/about/the-mace )