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ending with 31st ultimo ~ twenty permits

were

issued under the Ordinance

N.6 of 1891 for ships to discharge cargo on Sunday

Hongkong.

in

This result

shows that the Ordinance has worked well by greatly reducing the ~ amount of Sunday labour in the port. No regulations have been issued imposing

the grant

on

conditions on

of such permits, and it

is

is

in

my

unnecessary

to issue any opinion to issue

regulations, inasmuch as experience has shown that the fee charged for permits is sufficient in itself to prevent application being made for them except in of real urgency.

I avail myself of

cases

2.

this opportunity to mention that I have

reason

to

believe that when the~

sittings of the Legislative

Conneil