CO129-365 - Governor Sir Lugard - 1910 [1-3] — Page 17

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My Lord,

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Rec2 5 FEL 10,

Government House,

Hongkong, 4th. January, 1910.

I have the honour to transmit for

the signification of His Majesty's pleasure the accompany-

-ing Ordinance entitled:-

An Ordinance to amend the Liquor Licences

Ordinance, 1898, and the Liquor Licences

Extension Ordinance, 1908, and to repeal the

Liquor Licences Amendment Ordinance,1902.

The usual report by the Attorney-General is attached,

to-

Enclosure 2. Enclosure 3. Enclosure 4.

-gether with a press copy of the remarks I made in the

Legislative Council on the second reading of the Bill, and

a Memorandum on the Licensing of Public Houses in Hongkong

which was laid on the Table of the Council when the Bill

was introduced.

2.

The principal feature of the

Ordinance is the constitution of a Board of Licensing

Justices on the analogy of that already existing in the

Straits Settlements, (though in the present Ordinance the

principle

THE RIGHT HONOURABLE

THE EARL OF CREWE,

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&c.

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