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Service qualificati n, I accept the view that there

additional qualifications are desirable at this stage,

except that I feel that persons who can satisfy the Registration Officer that they are excluded from the Jury List solely on the grounds that they are over 60, or are

ignorant of the English language, or on account of deafness,

blindness or other like informity, or because they are females (see section 3 of the Jury Ordinance, 1857), ought

also to have the vote. I would ask that the proposals in Sir Mark Young's despatch No. 145 may be modified accordingly.

I understand, however, that the question of including women on the Jury List is under consideration, and if the law is so

mended, the reference to woman can, of course, be omitted.

The whole question of electoral qualifications should,

of course, be kept under review as education spreads and

illiteracy is redused,

(4) Hominati a of the apoginted members of the Municipal

Council (paragraph 29). I have given much careful thought to

Bar Mark Young's recommendations on this question and in

particular to the sugerted allocation of seats to the

recognised "rade Unions. I understand that in present circumstances, when Trade Unions are still passing through

the formative stage, it is not constäṇred opportune to increase this allocation, and I am therefore prepared to ac ept the

resumendation that, for the period of the first Council, they

should have the right to nominate two Councillors only. An

increase in that allocation should, however, be kept

carefully in mind and will, I hope, be found possible when

the distribution of nominated seuts is first reviewed.

The question whether or not the nominating bodies should

be desi neted in the statutory provisi ne constituting the

Municipal