CO129-363 - Public Offices & Others - 1909 — Page 413

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"PARADISE. LONDON

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THE MERCANTILE BANK OF INDIA LIMITED.

40. Threadneedle Street,

London;

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7th April 1909.

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The Under Secretary of State for the Colonies,

Colonial Office,

sir,

Downing Street, S.W.

The enclosed copy of a letter addressed by me to His

Excellency Sir Frederick Lugard, K.C.M.G., C.B., Governor

of Hongkong, bears on the question of Note Issues and the position of legal tender Currency in that Colony. I have been informed in reply that the points raised are having

the consideration of His Excellency and that I shall in due

course receive a further communication from him.

My object in writing you at the present juncture is to

respectfully ask that no definite action regarding the

Metallic or Paper issues of the Colony, or the privileges and monopolies enjoyed in connection therewith, be taken

without my being given an opportunity of personally pre-

senting to you a statement of the disabilities entailed

by the present conditions not only on ourselves but on the

Government and Community of Hongkong.

I am, Sir,

Your obedient servant,

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P.S.

I am sending a similar letter

to the Lords Commissioners

of His Majecty's Treasury.