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to a public mooting and declared carried by an overwhelm-
ing majority.
This resolution was as follows :-
"That it is the opinion of this meeting that
"it is in the best interests of the Colony that "persons of German nationality should be excluded *therefrom for & presoribed period of years "following the declaration of peace, and that
"subscquently they be only admitted to the
"Oolony under strict licence.*
I have underlined the variation from the other resolu- tione alluded to above. I have the honour to enclose
the newspaper report of the proceedings.
5.
I have boon a resident of this Colony for 53 years.
I was a member of the Legislative Council for 20 years,
and I have been a member of the Executive Council for
19 years.
residence.
The Colony is my home and I have no other
I was instrumental in forming the three
The Hongkong
largoat land Companies in the Colony.
Land Investment & Agency do. Ed., The West Point Building
Co. Ld. and The Hongkong Land Reclamation Co. Ld.
Ihavo boon
I am a llanaging Director of each of thon, for many years & Director of the Hongkong & WhaLipos Dock Co. Ld., the oldest and most important Dock Company in the Far East. I have also boon, since its foruation,' a Director of the Hongkong & Kowloon Wharf & Godown Co. Ld. of which I was one of the Founders, and which hea the largest accommodation for the warehousing of cargo in the Colony. I originated the Fraya Reclamation schone which added a large and extromoly valuable aréa of reclained land to the water front of the Colony and I visited England in the year 1888 for the purpose of discussing such scheme with His Majesty's then Secretary of State for the dolonies and laid the sohome before him