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Chambers,
Supreme Court, Hongkong
3rd. March, 1911.
12 APR 11
H. E. Sir F. Lugard, K.C.M.G., &c.,
Governor, of Hongkong.
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A suggestion was made by Mr. Hough
that a medal should be struck, specially for distribution among the
children of the Colony, in gun metal, and that Her Majesty the
Queen should be asked to select the ribbon. The Committee did not
come to any conclusion on the subject, partly in view of the cost
of the die. It occurs to me that the same idea may be suggested
in other Colmies, and that possibly the cost of the dis might be
shared. Would Your Excellency very kindly communicate this idea
to the Secretary of State, and he might be asked to reply by cable;
I would then lay the proposal in more definite form before the
Committee. Mr. Hough has asked me to enclose the accompanying
medal issued in 1879 in Austria which might form a model for the
die.
I was also going to make a similar
suggestion with reference to the issue of a stamp. Perhaps Your
Excelleny would ask the Secretary of State the same questions with
regard to it.
I have etc., (Sd.) F. T. Piggott,
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