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Miss Ruston.
Please see the attached extract of
a letter received from Mr. Hazelrigg.
I have heard nothing about & con-
stitutional reform in Hong Kong, but I
presume it is on the stocks and relates
to the Legislative Council, though the
fool
third sentence in the last paragraph seems
to suggest that he has Municipal reform
in mind. If the latter they will, of
course, have to draft their own Ordinance,
but if it is a new Constitution of the
Colony which has to be drafted I think
the work should be done by the legal
staff in this Office. During the last
year or two first drafts have been pre-
pared in the Colonies, e.g. the Gold
Coast and Ceylon, but now we have more
assistant legal advisers here who have
gained experience in this work, I do not
think there would be very much saving
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