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RECEIVED
2 0 JUL 1331
OOL OFFICE
87845
14
GOVERNMENT HOUSE,
HONG KONG, 18th June, 1931.
1129/1/14
My Lord,
With reference to Sir Claud Severn's despatch No.36 of the 2nd of February, 1924, concerning the
proposal to adopt in Hong Kong the system of reciprocal
charges for fees in respect of visas, I have the honour
to inform Your Lordship, that in consequence of the
greatly changed conditions which obtain to day, the
fees mentioned therein as chargeable for visas now
appear to me to be wholly disproportionate to the amount
of time expended in verifying applications, besides
being out of line both with the fees recommended by the Passport Conference held at Geneva in May, 1926, and
with the fees imposed by the British Foreign Office
and by other countries.
2. Accordingly I have the honour to request Your Lordship's approval for a general revision of visa
fees upon the following lines:-
(a). Entry visas to be $10 instead of $2 to the
nationals of those countries charging 10
gold francs in respect of these visas; in
the case of countries charging more than
10 gold francs, the fee to be reciprocal to
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THE RIGHT HONOURABLE
LORD PASSFIELD,
&c.,
&C.,
&c.
that