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VIII.

Recommendations and views in paragraphs

27, 32, 35, 39 and 43-45 of your despatch will be

agreed to without comment in my reply.

IX.

Proposed qualifications for voters in

paragraph 24 will be reserved for further considera-

tion, without of course any mention of my doubts in

paragraph above, unless you are able to suggest a

suitable alternative to the juror's qualification in

your reply. In that event you may wish to propose

some amendment of paragraph 24 of your despatch

before it is published.

X.

Suggestion in paragraph 25 will be agreed,

with further suggestion that this proposal might also

be applied to non-Chinese subjects.

XI.

Proposals in paragraph 31 regarding fumtions

to be discharged by Municipality will be agreed to but

the view will be expressed that certain matters such as

town planning, education and social welfare will have

to be made subject to general policy control by Central

Government and the point made that care will be

necessary in defining the functions; in particular the

expression "Public Works" seems much too wide.

XII.

As regards paragraphs 33 and 34, my reply

will express agreement with your view that appointment

of Commission should be deferred until Council has been

constituted so that Commission can include members of

Municipal Council. I propose also to ask that the

Commission be reminded of need for making specific

provision so far as necessary in all these arrangements

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for application to Municipal finances of external controls forns unciais

which is exercised over Colony's funds whilst in receipt

of assistance from H. M. G.; to suggest Commission should

also be asked to report on steps to be taken to avoid

wasteful duplication of services in administration of

urban and rural areas; and to say that I would wish to

be consulted on Commission's recommendations before any

decisions are taken on them.

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