MINUTES.
taste him to come
+
descuss the walk,
MINUTES NOT TO BE WRITTEN
ON THIS SIDE.
You saw this.
Stabb on Frida Kuniday
& discussed this. I submit
det in ascodaun
L
Any reply to this letter should be addressed to
THE SECRETARY,
TREASURY.
WHITEHALL, LONDON, S.W. I. and the following number quoted.
20
vabal istez
your
sir,
F/3533.
IONAL
756
TREASURY CHAMBERS.
BSABLED
February, 1923.
CO
9172
Rep A 20 FEB 23
30
7/22
I have laid before the Lords Commissioners of
His Majesty's Treasury Sir G. Grindle's letter of the 8th Zulto instant (60929/22) enclosing a copy of a despatch from the
Officer Administering the Government of Hong Kong,
regarding the Tenth Supplemental Charter of the Chartered
Bank of India, Australia and China.
In reply I am to express Their Lordships' regret
that the draft Supplemental Charter was not submitted for the
consideration of the Secretary of State. It does not
appear to Them that the Charter embodied any new principle
beyond the two questions upon which the views of the
Secretary of State were invited, and (as they thought)
obtained, but they readily admit that an opportunity should
have been afforded to your Department for an examination of
its terme before it was submitted to His Majesty in Council.
Their Lordships do not find Themselves able to
agree with the contentions advanced in the despatch from The Under Secretary of State
Colonial Office
the/