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Mr. Deccett
Mr. Dushe will be back next. week.
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I am not sure however that a meating is now
necessary. I an inclined to tel. to the:0.A.G.
what the Promoters now propose and to say
that S. of S. proposes to approve subject to
the conditions in the letter of 11 June in 47081 ·
being fully accepted.
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I have to acknowledge receipt of your lette: 47790/1919
of the 4th inst., and regret that Mr. Bowley's affairs in Eng land
prevented his being in London last week,
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With regard to the opinion expressed by the Offisez
administrating the Government in Hong Kong zegaraing the National
Electric Construction Company, I can only express the opinion that
there is some misunderstanding regarding the financial proposal.
It has never been suggested that the National Electric Construction
Company would out of its own funds provide all the capital required
for the Undertaking in question, in fact, I do not suppose that
there is a Company in this country which would or could give such
an tindertaking. The National Electric Construction Company,
however, have satisfied me, and I am prepared to say, can satisfy
any other party, that it is in a position, through its financial
connections, to provide the capital for the Company which is to be
formed. The National Electric Construction Company 18 at the
present time managing some sixteen Tray and Electric Light
Undertakings in England and Scotland, and the combined capital
of these Undertak ings is well over one million pounds sterling,
all of which was secured by that Company.
My object in suggesting a meeting in London was to put
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