CO129-329 - Governor Nathan - 1905 [7-12] — Page 78

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Enclosure 2.

Sir,

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Rre 30 AUG 05

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Hongkong General Chamber of Commerce,

Hongkong, 14th. July, 1905.

In reply to your letter No. 4218/1905/

0.0.0., my Committee have considered the copies of correspon-

-dence between the Merchant Service Guild and the Secretary of

State for the Colonies with regard to the Filots' Ordinance and

i am directed to state that they have no further comments to

make, and that the last paragraph in the letter of the Secre-

-tary of State for the Colonies to the Merchant Service Guild

of 27tb. April, 1905, viz:- "I am however to observe that the

"Pilots' Ordinance already provides that no person shall be

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licensed as a Filot unless he has satisfied a board of Ex-

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-aminers appointed by the Governor that he is capable of

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'performing such duties'

appears to my Committee a suffi-

-cient reply to the Merchant Service Guild.

I have etc.,

(Sd.) J. B. Bingham,

Secretary.

The Honourable

F. H. May, C.M.6.,

Colonial Secretary.