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and safety of the Chinese ~ Passengers themselves.
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I may add that I
have also consulted the Exe ecutive Council on the subject, the members of which are
nanimously of opinion that the proposed legislation is
unneo
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recessary, and undesirable, In this opinion I con-
our and I hope that Her- Majesty's Government will not consider it necessary to insist upon the introduction into
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into the legislature of this Colony of an Ordinance which cannot fail to affect preju dicially British shipping this part of the world. As you
are aware
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competition in the shipping world is daily be- coming Keener, and legislation such as that now proposed if carried into effect is bound to hamper seriously the interests of British shipping and thus aid the competitors of other
nationalities.
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