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and cộp - tly regiatera. a*ter you have opened them

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The letters could bu regia" •

fter I have opened

them and han 'ed on to the olerk.

145-83 Q.

And therefore there is no gustif`ation for such extraordinary procedure ↑

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I wish to say that the letter wou`~ come to me in the first place. Supposing they came to me, they would be

opened and handed on to this cler'.

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And you could keep back such letters

you thought it

inadvisable for that Chinses c) rk to see ?

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There is not one letter in two hundred which should not

go on to the clerk for registration.

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But Ithink you said in one care alone 5000 notices went out in a year. You have five, ten, or twenty thousand

letters in a year?

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PUBLIC RECORD OFFICE

Reference:-

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RECORD OFFICE, LONDON OUT PERMISSION OF THE PUBLIC REPRODUCED PHOTOGRAPHICALLY WITH COPYRIGHT PHOTOGRAPH - NOT TO BE

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But all these go through the Chinese clerk.

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M- Shelton Hooper:-

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If it is only one letter a month, it may be that that letter should be kept back. I have letters, every Member of the Commissio, has letters, which we have to consider whether they are confidential or not. It does not follow that a business man treats a letter confidentially because it is marked confidanttal.

Cant you see that you might get some correspondence about a contract before it is let, the information of which would be very valuable to some people to know, they could get that informatio...

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I could conceive such a letter.

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As such a thing is possible, dont you think it would he better if ataps were taken to alter that system

Yes, I should be quite willing.

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