surance
Companies in Hong- Hong and to state that as
Lordship
Your Lo
is aware
from
2504
my despatch N. 1 of the 4th 2000s.
of January, 1895.
I was unable
to adopt their suggestion.
when they
I
were made.
I may point out ~ that there are at most only ten Companies or Agencies for Companies represented by the signatures to the letter whereas there are as
as 162 doing business
many
or
>
or
133
-having agencies in Kong-
Kong.
There is a suspicion
". that the allegation that
certain Companies
es in outting
down rates to obtain business
have to a certain extent en-
couraged the spread of wilful. fire-raising
in the Colony, and it is generally agreed that some steps should be taken in the wo
way of registration
or otherwise to secure the re-
spectability of Companies
Parruin