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Permt. U.S. of S.
Parly. U.S. S.
Minister of State
Secretary of State
Your Reference.....
DRAFT.
DESPATCH F.O. Conson.
GOVERNOR,
Sir,
NO.
KONG KONG.
14:
Note by B. & Alon (copies attached)
FURTHER ACTION.
I have etc. to acknowledge the receipt of your
despatch 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, exception 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 wide range of persons.
I am of course aware thatthe 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 enclose 2 to your despatch, many of these
Chinese are persons whose entry into Hong Kong would
have been prevented had effective immigration control
in relation to Chinese been feasible at the end of
the war,
ure
and I realise that, notwithstanding the
f measures