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Simply impossible for Europeans to work as they can work in the temperate climate of England or of Canada, Australia, and New Zealand. Further, it will be recollected that in the many tropical Colonies there are no hill-stations, as in British India, which enable our high Indian Officials to live throughout the year in a temperate climate by which their energies are not injuriously affected. At Hongkong, on the contrary, it is absolutely necessary at all times for the preservation of the vigour, often for the preservation of the lives, of the English Officials, that they should be allowed periodical leave of absence.
Consequently, it is always probable that one or more of the members of the Executive and Legislative Council will be away from the Colony owing to illness or absence on leave. In past years, it has sometimes been found difficult to secure a quorum of the Executive Council when it consisted of only four or five members. More Members, as proposed by me, are certainly not too many because...
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