14
548
5
1:10 desp. 164 of 16th Augt 4893.
Secretary's letter of 12th instant Encloses of
practically answered by
are
the statements and admissions
in other portions of the document, and I find it
unnecessary
to trouble Your
Lordship with
comments
except
any on the paragraph, (M:11)
which refers to the alleged unwillingness of members
to serve on Commissions
The
complaint which I made
was not of the unwillingness
of
"and Committees."
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of members to serve, but of the difficulty of inducing
them to sit, that is to meet
and discharge the duty for which they may
have been appointed.
That difficulty in
Hongkong is notorious, and the protracted duration of the Po Leungkuk Committee affords a good illustration of it. But I may add that the present is not the first occasion on which Mr Whitehead has declined even to