So #. Kong.
bouf (No. Ause) - 14.10.35.
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B. 12b.-
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15 OCT 1935
Mr. Looker, who took a prominent part on
behalf of the China Association in the criticism
of the Hong Kong Government's Foreshore and Sea Bed
Works Bill in 1933, called this morning by arrange-
ment to discuss the redrafted Bill,which we approved
in No. 4 in this file after having ascertained that
the Foreign Office saw no objection to the redraft.
He told me that the present situation of int that Legislature the Bill was that it had been introduced /and in the
and
course of the second reading it had been agreed, at
the request of the Unofficial Members, that the
Bill should not at present be proceeded with pending
a reference home on the part of several unofficial
interests and a discussion between them and the
Attorney General.
Although Mr. Looker had not discussed the
Bill in any complete sense in the Committee of the
China Association, he had prepared a memorandum for
such a discussion in which, as at present drafted,
he proposed to criticize Part II of the Bill on the
following points :-
Clause 5 (1).
It is not clearly stated when the two
months' notice was to start from: ? from the
date of the publication of the Bill or from
separate notification of the details of an
undertaking contemplated.
Clause 5 (2)