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PUBLIC RECORDS ACT 1958
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1. Please see (20). Now see (14). gives the Governor from here much the same advice as the Ambassador Nanking gives him independently in (18). The burden of it is that the Societies Ordinance (in which action depends on connection with a foreign political party) is not the proper way to deal with the New China News Agence, that the proper way to deal with that is under press legislation if and when the Agency prints a specific subversive article and that in any case, for reasons given, he should not be in a hurry to take action against this organisation at all. In (19) the
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