CO129-346 - Governor Sir Lugard - 1908 [1-3] — Page 174

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No. 34.

Hongkong.

My Lord,

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13 MA

Government House,

Hongkong, 10th.February, 1908.

Referring to my Despatch No. 207

of the 8th. August last, I have the honour to state that

objection has been made by the China Mutual Life Insurance

Company, Limited, a company registered locally but operat-

-ing mainly in Shanghai and the neighbourhood, to various

clauses in the Life Insurance Companies Ordinance, 1907.

2.

Certain of the criticisms made

by the Company and their advisers would appear to be well

founded, but the matters with which they deal are of so

technical a nature that this Government without the assist-

-ance of expert advice, which is obtainable locally only

from competing Insurance Companies, is unable to deal with

them.

3.

I have therefore to request that

the matter may be submitted to the legal advisers of the

Colonial Office or to such other authority as Your Lordship

RIGHT HONOURABLE

may

THE EARL OF ELGIN, K.G.,

&C...

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