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to himself (the S. of S. for the Colonies), in order that the question may first be submitted to this Board and the Army Council." This cendition was definitely ze ported to the Colony in 0.0. despatch of lth August, 1911, to the Governor of Hong Kong. The second portion of the Section can obviously net be applied unless it has been previously agreed that an undertaking should be troased under the first portion of the Section as a "productive undertaking
The fact is that the Section of the Hong Kong Ordinance quoted by the Domy Treasurer is only on a permissive nature made wide in its torns to oby authe necessity of ameuding ordinanceE, Its not general in its application to all produstave undertakings in a Colony and neither the whole of the Section nor a portion of it. can be extended to any particular undertaking, not previously approved for treatment on net receipts, without the prior authority of His Majesty's Government. There has thus been no error in law in the past treatment of waterworks receipts in Hong Kong.
War Office.
August, 1931.