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DRAFT
DESPATCH
GOVERNOR
HONG KONG
sir,
54064/3/49
FOR FOREIGN OFFICE CONSIDERATION
9
I have the honour to acknowledge the
receipt of your despaton No. 177 of the 4th October,
1949, and to inform you that power of disallowance
will not be exercised in respect of Ordinance No. 39
of 1949, shortly entitled "The Expulsion of
Undesirables Ordinance, 1949".
2.
The provisions of the Ordinance are,
as you have recognised, exceptional in legislation
enacted ordinarily as opposed to regulations made
in pursuance of emergency powers and I note that
there was criticism of the Ordinance as being too
arbitrary and as being capable of being put in motion
against a very side range of persons. I am of course
aware that the large number of Chinese who have
entered the Colony since the war present urgent and
serious problems in the maintenance of public order
and health and over-tax the Colony's resources as
regards food and water. As is pointed out in the
report by the Attorney-General at enclosure 2 to your
despatch, many of these Chinese are persons who se
entry into Hong Kong would have been prevented had
effective
THE OFFICER ADMINISTERING
THE GOVERNMENT OF