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Anclosure 2.
(VII.)
Sir,
Chambers,
Supreme Court, Hongkong,
23rd. June, 1908.
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I have the honour to acknowledge Your Excel-
-lency's letter of 22nd. instant.
2.
I much regret that Your Excellency did not
adopt the convenient practice of omitting the paragraph in r
letter relating to the Chamber of Commerce, indicating its
omission by asterisks, as it introduced a side-issue not hear-
-ing directly on the question submitted to the Secretary of
State. It has involved introducing an extra body of correspond-
-ence,
and moreover submits a question to the Secretary of
State on which I have not been called on for explanation. I
much regret that I do not see my way to comply with Your Excel-
-lency's request to submit my observations to the Secretary of
State in the manner provided by Regulation 217 (I think this is
the Regulation to which Your Excellency refers). Your Excellency
has not only referved this matter of my dispute with the
Chamber of Commerce to the Secretary of State, presumably with a
view to obtaining his opinion upon it, but also reported a
breach of the Colonial Regulations which Your Excellency is of
opinion I have committed, without in either case asking me for
explanations. It is, as I understand it, a fundamental rule of
the service that no officer shall be reported without being
asked what he has to say in explanation. And this explanation I am, with deference, entitled to make and to have it forwarded in the usual way to the Secretary of State. I have hitherto said very little on the subject of the action of the Chamber of Commerce and the action of the Government in connexion with the proposed extension of the Lone vacation. As the matter was dead
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