CO129-211 - Governor Sir Bowen - 1883 [8-9] — Page 132

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of the term of Office of a new Governor Judge, and after due notice to him before his acceptance of the Office tendered to him.

6.

At the same time, if it is thought right to take away the privilege in question from any future Governor of Hongkong, it is my duty to submit that he should on public grounds be granted an equivalent in the addition of five hundred pounds (£500) a year to the annual sum of one thousand pounds (£1000) now granted for "Lighting, Entertainments at the Government House. I can witness from my personal knowledge and experience, that there are far more numerous and urgent claims on the hospitality of the Governor of Hongkong than on that of the Governors of the great Colonies of Victoria and New-Zealand. Nor should it be forgotten that the hospitality incumbent on the Governor of Hongkong is of a nature far more important for reasons of national policy, than that exercised by:

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510 of the term of Office of a new Governor Judge, and after due notice to him before his acceptance of the Office tendered to him. 6. At the same time, if it is thought right to take away the privilege in question from any future Governor of Hongkong, it is my duty to submit that he should on public grounds be granted an equivalent in the addition of five hundred pounds (£500) a year to the annual sum of one thousand pounds (£1000) now granted for "Lighting, Entertainments at the Government House. I can witness from my personal knowledge and experience, that there are far more numerous and urgent claims on the hospitality of the Governor of Hongkong than on that of the Governors of the great Colonies of Victoria and New-Zealand. Nor should it be forgotten that the hospitality incumbent on the Governor of Hongkong is of a nature far more important for reasons of national policy, than that exercised by:
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of the term of Office of a new Governor Judge, and after due notice to him

before his acceptance of the Office

tendered to him.

6.

At the same time, if

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it is thought right to take away privilege in question from anym -future Governor of Hongkong, it is my duty to submit that he should

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