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CHAPTER XII
CONCLUDING REMARKS
INDEX OF MAIN RECOMMENDATIONS
200. For convenience of reference an index of our main decisions and recommendations will be found at Appendix VII.
ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS
201. We have called on the Personnel and the Financial Branches of the Secretariat for information, often at short notice, and they have not failed Heads of Departments have invariably shown the greatest willingness, in writing or in personal attendance at our meetings, to help us to solve difficulties with which we were confronted.
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202. The completion of our task with relative speed is very largely due to the energy and keenness that our Joint Secretaries, Mr. P. C. M. Sedgwick and Mr. I. S. Wan, have maintained through five of the worst months of the year. Meeting almost daily we have thrown upon them a great deal of work that had to be done out of ordinary office hours. The stenographers and typists assigned to us have had to work hard and for long hours and we should like to express especially to Miss Olive Redwood and Mr. A. A. Crestejo, our appreciation of their excellent services.
ABSENCE OF MR. NGAN SHING KWAN AT THE TIME OF COMPLETION OF THE REPORT
203. One of the members of the Commission, Mr. Ngan Shing Kwan, had to leave the Colony for business reasons shortly before this Report was ready for signature. In a letter to the Chairman dated 20th August Mr. Ngan stated that he was in full agreement with all the Commission's recommendations and with the draft text of the Report which he had seen. He requested that he should be regarded as one of the signatories to the Commission's Report. A copy of his letter is attached at Appendix VIII.
P. C. M. SEDGWICK, | Joint
1. S. WAN.
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D. J. SLOSS.
29th August, 1947.
M. K. LO.
[Secretaries.
J. R. JONES.
Chairman.
T. MEGARRY.
ARNOLD POLLARD.
W. N. T. TAM.
Members.