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3. Immigration Control.
The Governor said that the control had functioned remarkably well with no real trouble; the Central People's Government had reacted very mildly and only after the matter had been raised by various bodies in Hong Kong.
Mr. Shattock enquired whether in view of the successful functioning of the control the putting into operation of the Expulsion of Undesirables Ordinance would be proceeded with. He felt that it would be no easier to persuade the Chinese authorities to accept expellees under this Ordinance than to accept deporteos under the Deportation of Aliens Ordinance in which connection Hong Kong had raised the point that it might not prove possible to get deportees accepted. In any case he felt that the present overcrowding in Hong Kong although no doubt it was serious, was not the real emergency which had been envisaged as necessary before the Expulsion of Undosirables Ordinance would be brought into operation.
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The Governor felt that although this Ordinance vas logically an essential corollary to the enforcement of immigration control it was probably not necessary for it to be applied at present and it was AGREED that a telegram to this effect should be sent to the 0.A.G.