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I cannot h
lenger delay
4.
ressión of my ¥dows.
pocoty
I have already observed that
As I was desums
I should like to see a Municipal Coun-
cil established in Hong Kong, but in
Expressing myself, I
so writing, took note of two practical
人 objecterns
difficulties in the way, one temporary
and connected with the plague, the
other of a more lasting character, be-
ing the difficulty of separating Muni-
cipal from Colonial matters;
This latter objection appears
to me to be almost insuperable, and I
Local
gather that the feeling in opposition
to the creation of a Municipal Council
Similar to
my or is due to a similar conviction that the
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co-existence, in so small an area, of
a Colonial as well as Municipal Admin-
istration is hardly practicable.
5.
But if the proposal to create
Regardist ino
a Municipal Council be, finally laid
aside