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owners (Mr Wong Thing), to a - seat in the Colonial Legislature; and of have always given favourable attention to the representations addressed to me by their Trade Guilds and other
associations. At the same
time,
& fully recognire that Chinese views, habits, and customs
respecting Water Supply, Sanitation, Volive, Harbour regulations, and - -most other social and political questions are widely different -
· from those entertained in Europe;
and
and that it would be impossible
to leave to a Municipal Council composed entirely of
Chinese, or
in which the Chinese element
would be largely predominant, the arrangements necessary for the health, good order, and general administration of
of one of the principal Naval and Military Stations, and Marts of commerce in the British Empire. In
addition to the Civil residents
and to the crews c
of the Merchant
ships, annually visiting this
port