S
JO ZRE
P SAT
K6X CONFIDENTIAL.
AIR MAIL.
70
GOVERNMENT HOUSE,
HONG KONG.
19th February, 1936.
Sir,
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I have the honour to report that I find
myself faced with the fact that within the next five
months all three Unofficial Members of my Executive
Council will have fulfilled their term of membership
or have resigned, viz:-
2.
term expires on 8th March;
term expires on 8th July;
Sir Henry Pollock,
Sir Shouson Chow,
Sir William Shenton, leaves the Colony for good
in April.
Sir Henry Pollock was originally appointed
to the Council on the 9th March, 1921, and Sir Shouson
Chow on the 9th July, 1926, so that neither of them is
ordinarily eligible for re-appointment. If, however,
neither is re-appointed the unofficial personnel will
suffer a breach of continuity unparalleled in the history
of the Council and particularly unadvisable, so it seems
to me, in the early days of a new Governor.
3.
(i)
I have therefore reviewed the position very
carefully and have arrived at the following conclusions :-
To Sir Shouson Chow the obvious successor
will be Dr. R.H. Kotewall, C.M.G., who was a member
of Legislative Council from 1923 to 1935 and has
THE RIGHT HONOURABLE
J.H. THOMAS, M.P.
&C.,
&c.,
&c.
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