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Mr.
Mr. A. J. Dawe.
Sir H. Moore.
Sir G. Tomlinson.
Sir J. Shuckburgh.
Permt. U.S. of S.
Parly. U.S. of S.
Secretary of State.
DRAFT.
FURTHER ACTION.
suggested here that it would be an
advantage under that scheme if all
requisitions for printing and stationery
made by the various Government Departments
in Hong Kong were centralized in and
authorised by an official possessing
the requisite knowledge to enable him
to scrutinize them efficiently.
But in considering the whole
problem it seems to us questionable
whether the Government should, especially
in these times, divest itself of all
facilities of its own even for the most
secret printing on a limited scale.
You may consider that there is something
in the fear that the future may hold
risks of labour troubles, possibly
fermented by political or anti-foreign
agitators amongst the Chinese. Hong
Kong had an experience of how crippling
such