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ments will of course enable the Hong
Kong and Shanghai Bank and the Charterci
:
Bank of India, Australia and China
1
should they so desire, to use that pro-
desire
portion of their total note issue which
is at present in circulation at the
for the purpose of meeting Straits, ondan meet, the demanag at
ed Hong Kong, It is understood that
the former Bank intends to withdraw its
notesas soon as practicable after tho
Government notes have come into circu-
I should therefore be glad astron es
lation.
if you would report
any trans-
fer of this description has taken place,
aft that
and, whether there is still an
insufficient supply of notes in Hong
Kong.
ར If that should prove to be
the case it appears to me that the al-
ternative liss between a further aug-
mentation of private sources of supply,
and