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appointed, the only drawback that I am aware of to this course would be that of expense.
It would afford the advantages of impartiality and freedom from trammels of foregone conclusions, and of experience acquired elsewhere being brought to bear on local conditions. (7) The appointment of a local Committee consisting entirely of unofficials.
8. Of these seven courses, I prefer the sixth, appointment of a Commission of persons entirely unconnected with Hongkong, as being the one which is the best calculated to lead to useful and practicable results. But if Your Lordship should consider it essential that a local Committee should be appointed, the only practicable course, in my opinion, is to appoint a Committee consisting entirely of unofficials. In order to obviate the interminable waste
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