125
19
The suggestion contained in the last paragraph of
your petition is, however, welcome and concrete proposals on
"the lines suggested would receive the sympathetic consideration
" of Government.
10
11
11
#
I am, Gentlemen,
Your obedient servant,
(Signed) K.M.A. Barnett
CLERK OF COUNCILS.
"The Hong Kong and Kowloon Hotels
and Boarding Houses Association,
c/o M. A. da Silva, Esq.,
Gloucester Building,
======
9.
1st floor,
HONG KONG,
Your Petitioners respectfully point out that the Petition
had been presented to His Excellency-in-Council only because of
the refusal of the Honourable the Colonial Secretary to include in
the terms of reference to the Hotels Advisory Committee the
question as to whether there should be control at all (in lieu of
the limited terms of reference of investigation and assessment of
rates), wherefor on the issue of abolition of control Your
Petitioners were advised that recourse would have to be to His
Excellency-in-Council by Petition, a Petition which Your
Petitioners were confident, even before the completed findings of
the Hotels Advisory Committee, would be fully supported by the
findings of that Committee.
10.
In the meantime on the limited terms of reference of the
Hotels Advisory Committee, Your Petitioners had been in communica-
tion with that Committee in respect of the inquiry instituted.
11. One of the preliminary steps taken by Your Petitioners was
the respectful suggestion to the Hotels Advisory Committee of the
inquiry taking the form of a judicial or quasi-judicial inquiry open
to the public in the tenor of the following letter to the Chairman
of that Committee :
11.
Inc