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JOHN WARD, J.P., M.P.
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EAST HILL, 530
WANDSWORTH,
LONDON, S.W. 19.
15th.
January 1925.
The Rt. Hon.L.C.M. S. Amery, M.P.,
Secretary of State for the Colonies, Colonial Office,
S.W.1.
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21 JAN 25
Dear Sir:-
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I have received the enclosed copy letter to The Clerk to the Public Petitions Committee, from the Secretary of the Committee for Constitutional Reform at Hong Kong, I should be pleased to know whether your Department has considered the subject matter of the Petition which I presented to the House of Commons, and, if so, can any information be supplied to me relating to the opinion of your Department upon the matter.
A great many reforms have been made in the Local Government of our Crown Colonies that -30 far as I am able to understand- have not injured the Imperial connection or Imperial interests, and it would be strange if the Britishers in Hong Kong are the only people who are to be considered as incapable of having some direct voice in the management of the Colony which their activities maintain.
Yours faithfully,
John Faid
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