CO129-341 - Acting Governor May Governor Lugard - 1907 [7-10] — Page 462

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RECR

Br 2 NOV 07

Government House,

457-

Hongkong, 3rd. October, 1907.

I have the honour to inform Your

Lordship that in May last the Registrar-General asked that

the status and duties of the office he holds as adviser

to the Government in matters affecting the Chinese com-

-munity and as the medium of communication between that

community and the Government should be authoritatively

defined with the sanction of the Secretary of State.

Hr. Brewin assigned as one reason

for his request that owing to the incongruity between the

title of his office and the duties recognised as appertain-

-ing to it, (and in this connection I would refer Your

Lordship to the Earl of Kimberley's Despatch No. 177 of

the 27th. December, 1881,) there was danger of the special

nature of the duties to which I have alluded being over-

-looked or forgotten, and of friction arising between the

incumbent of the office and the Heads of other Departments.

2.

THE RIGHT HONOURABLE

THE EARI OF ELGIN, K.G.,

800.

&C.