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Members of Council and of the most influential members of
the Chinese Community. It has not given rise to any
friction, and no evidence has come to my knowledge that
the Chinese Community in any way resent the law or fail to
appreciate the economic reasons for which it was passed.
4.
It is necessary here to correct
and amplify the statements concerning Mr. Ho Tung and his
wife made in the Chief Justice's Memorandum. I am informed
that Mr. Ho Tung is the reputed, illegitimate son of a Mr.
Bosman (not Bowden) by a Chinese woman. That he was former-
-ly Compradore to Messrs. Jardine, Matheson and Company and
has at present two brothers in the employ of that firm,
concerning whose parentage (although illegitimate) there
is no such doubt: that the woman Mr. Ho Tung first took to
wife is not a Portuguese lady. She is the illegitimate
daughter of the late Mr. Hector Maclean, formerly a sales-
-man in Messrs. Jardine, Matheson and Company by a Chinese
woman. She bore Mr. Ho Tung no children.
In accordance with Chinese custom
Mr. Ho Tung therefore took a secondary wife - a pure
Chinese - by whom he had children. Later (I am informed)
he took a Concubine in the person of the daughter of a
Eurasian pupil teacher in Victoria College. By her he also
had
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