CO129-352 - Public Offices - 1908 — Page 13

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sir,

Despier

M.b.*. Consulate-Gener$t;

SHANGHAL,

19 May; 1908.

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2 JUL 98

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I have the honour to acknowledge receipt of sour letter

No. 6 (10524/05) of the 13tn uitiac tracemitting to me by direc-

tion of the secretary of state for my otservations a despatch

from the Colonial office on the subject of the Hongkong ordinance

to authorize companies registerod under the Companies urdinance,

1885, to keep local registers of their sexters outside the Colony.

the necessity of stricter leáislation to enforce the spirit,

if not the letter, of the mungkooą Companies Ordinance, 1885,

has been recognized for soca time past by the British mercantile

community in Chias, It is generally adɛitted that the ordinance

has to soge extect baûn stused and that the Hongkoné Government

have not been receiving an adequate reture for services rendered.

wevertheless some apprehension was not unnaturally falt that the

The Right Honouratie,

sir adward Grey Bart, *.P.,

etc.

etc.

etc..

Mie vajesty's Secretary of state,

roreign office,

London.

Mongkong