are, that the Legislation Council has a real instead of merely nominal control over the Supplementary expenditure of the Colony, & that legislation is going on all the year round, necessity for it may arise, instead of being crowded into a few weeks or months of the year.
There could, I imagine, be no difficulty in introducing the Mauritius system into Hong Kong as the Unofficial members of the Council are all on the spot, & could assemble with very little trouble to themselves any day in the year if it were desirable.
Probably meetings of Council whenever they were required would be the best plan in Hong Kong.
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Frequent meetings of the Legislation Council would hardly fail to have a good effect on the Hong Kong Community, as it would prove to them that it was intended by the Secretary of State that the Council should control the expenditure of the Colony. The Unofficial members could also have opportunities of calling attention to any acts of the Executive to which the Community might take exception, of which they might consider themselves aggrieved.
And I imagine it would lead to a diminution of the number of unfounded charges now so frequently brought against the Government by the newspapers.
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