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I don't see any possibility of separating "Municipal" and non Municipal affairs in Hong Kong. It is an old question to which nobody has ever found a solution. My own idea is that what is wrong with Crown Colony Government can usually be set right by a system of Grand Committees of Council in which un- officials are the majority. This is practically what I did in Ceylon by means of using the Finance Committee for all sorts of business and I have advised Sir 7. Manning to include an extension of the system in his reform scheme.
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do.
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A.E. C. 8/5
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7/5.