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THE HONGKONG GENERAL CHAMBER OF COMMERCE
Hongkong, 9th. May, 1917.
With reference to your letters (2) No. 3295/17
of the 5th. and 26th. March, both of which were passed by this
Chamber to the Association of Exporters and Dealers of Hong
Kong for consideration and advice, I have now the honour to
enclose for your information copy of the Association's reply
from which you will learn that stops that body is prepared to
take to assist the work of "The Imperial Trust for the Encourage-
ment of scientific and Industrial Research",
I am directed to request that you will be good
enough to extend to His Excellency the Governor the thanks of
my Committee for so courteously submitting the correspondence regarding this project for the consideration of this Chamber.
I have &o.,
(58.) E. ▲. M. Williams,
Secretary.
The Honourable
The Colonial Secretary.