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limit
for which of coma
he does not
ask) but inviting
that
in such
rare
mistanees
this
ве
may
Indged to be
a
necessary
he shr im mochably
report
the action taken for the
Covering affront of the Sys.
CWGsut
13/3
No: 2540/c/31.
The time taken by despatches between Hong
Kong and London has been reduced, by the intro-
about
duction of air mails, by/one half- and may,I suppose,
be still further reduced within a few years, quite
apart from the looming prospect of weekly wireless
telephone conversations between the Hong Kong
Secretariat and the Eastern Department of the
Colonial Office.
So the Governor's plea that "circumstances
do not always allow of the long delay consequent
on reference by despatch" carries less weight now
than it would have done in the past.
He apparently wants a relaxation of C.R.281
(265 of new edition) which would practically
confine paragraph (b) to "new services", and,
even as regards these, allow a wider discretion
to the Governor than the paragraph at present
gives him.
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