that the cost of repatriation
of destitute persons other than seamen, who are sent to Hong Kong by British Consular Officers abroad will be met by consular funds, but that the cost of repatriating persons domiciled in the U.K who have come destitute to Hong Kong cannot be defrayed from those funds.
3. As regards persons domiciled in the Colonies it is impossible to lay down any general rule; it will be necessary in each case to consult the Secretary of State for the Colonies concerned.
3 have etc.
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that the cost of repatriation
of destitute persons other than seamen, who are sent to Hong Kong by British Consular Officers abroad will be met by consular funds, but that the cost of repatriating persons domiciled in the U.K who have come destitute to Hong Kong cannot be defrayed from those funds.
3. As regards persons domiciled in the Colonies it is impossible to lay down any general rule; it will be necessary in each case to consult the Secretary of State for the Colonies concerned.
3 have etc.