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C.S.0. 3241/22.
Hon: a.G. (Attorney General, Hong Kong)
1.
2.
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Letter sent. (50) completed.
Letter $ 10.9.28, * Draft
letter.
Duplicate permit detached and placed in my safe in
accordance with your para. 3. Copy substituted.
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3.
Files enumerated in your para. 5 withdrawn.
4.
Paras. 4 & 6 noted.
5.
Copy letter of 11th September, 1928 from Messrs. Johnson,
Stokes & Master attached.
6.
You know my view, viz., that the Government's only stand
and control rests on and in the permit; and that if the Government
is not prepared, if necessary, to go to the length of refusing to
renew the pipe-line permit for 1929, the sooner the case is
dropped the better.
7.
Until Counsel express a clear opinion as to the tenable
positions, this includes elimination of other positions the
stand on the Crown Lease may be one it would seem that the
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correspondence between me as Crown Solicitor and lessrs. Johnson,
Stokes & Master must be held up, unless you advise that they be
asked whether the Government's right to refuse renewal of the
permit is contested by their clients.
8.
I think that this should be a sealed cover file.
Sd. H.K. Holmes
Crown Soliqitor
12. 9. 28.