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a
received by/separate Municipality.
conditions are not reproduced in the
Straits Settlements, Ceylon, or
Mauritius, and I do not think there
is any likelihood of any of them
proposing to adopt a similar system. (Apart from this I do not quite see,
if you decide that it is a good
system to adopt in Hong Kong,
These
I's extension
why you should be afraid of adopting
elsewhere,
will
(5)
As you have seen from
our official letter of the 14th of
December, the Hong Kong Government
is not now prepared to waive the
refund of £114,000 overpaid.
(6) Our not writing to the
Treasury was an oversight and we
have now sent them a copy of our
official letter to you of the
12th of October.
Yours sincerely,
(16)
Signed) W. C. BOTTOMLE
( In the absence of Sir G. Grindle