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the petition which are not expressly covered by

the statement of the reasons for your conclusion.

3. Meanwhile the solicitors here, who have

now asked that "the circumstances should be argued

before the Secretary of State by some eminent K.C.",

are being told that I had already received a full

petition, that the matter is under consideration by

the Governor in Council as the competent authority

under the Ordinance, and that I therefore feel that

no useful purpose would be served by adoption of the

suggestion in passage quoted above. Solicitors

are also being told that the right course is for

the petitioner to continue to make his representations

to the Governor in the Colony.