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Under Secretary of State,
Colonial Office.
the Conference believes it to be in the interests of missionary
work that the Basel Mission should be permitted to send a mission
ary to Hong Kong and to use this as a base for its work on the
mainland. In September of last year Mr Jucker, the treasurer
of the Basel Mission in Hong Kong, applied to the Hong Kong Government asking for permission to return to Hong Kong.
He was informed that the Government regretted that it was at that time unable to accede to his request. Having reviewed
the whole sf tuation, the Conference of Missionary Societies ventures to renew the request that the Basel Mias ionary
Society should be allowed to send Mr Jucker to Hong Kong and
that the Board of Trustees for mission property should be allowed to place temporarily at his disposal such property as may be immediately required, leaving the question of the final disposal of the property of the Basel Mission for further
consultation between the Basel Missionary Society, the Board
of Trustees and the Government.
In submitting the request that the Basel Missionary
Society should be allowed to resume work in Hong Kong, it may be pointed out that permission has already been given to that Society by the British North Borneo Company to send back to North/