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the Taikoo Shipyard, the Hongkong and Whampoa Dock Company (of

whose Directorate Mr. Keswick is Chairman) and the two Sugar

Refineries, could be spared even on Sundays and holidays.

Mr. Keswick objected to any form of Com

«pulsory service because its imposition would place British

Merchants at a disadvantage with Foreign Merchants whose ca-

-ployees would not be subject to ti.

Mr. Robertson said that he was opposed to

form of compulsory service.

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Mr. Stabb, in answer to the Officer Ado

-ministering the Government, sated that even on Sundays and

holidays a proportion of the European Staff of the Bank, amount- -ing sometimes to as many as 6 or 7) clerks out of a total of 30,

had to attend at the Bank for work at any tim rate during the

forenoon. He was, therefore, opposed to any form of compulsory

service.

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Lieutenant-Colonel Chapman considered that

Heads of Firms might do much more than they did towards en-

-couraging volunteering. He instanced one Head of a Firm who

upbraided one of his Staff for joining the Volunteers #ith the

result that no other member of the Staff joined the Force.

Several members who voted against the

adoption of the scheme of compulsory service having expressed the opinion that they would be in favour of compulsory training

were it not that local conditions, one of the principal of which

is that men who come out to Hongkong have already entered on

their life's work, offered iḍsuperable objections, the Officer

Administering the Government asked if they would record their

opinion in the form of a resolution. Thereupon Mr. B. A. Howett

moved and Mr. Keswick seconded the following resolution:-

"The members present regret that as matters "now stand, local conditions do not permit of the adoption of,

*compulsory Military Service in the Colony. They, however,

fare entirely of opinion that such compulsory service should be

"introduced throughout the Empire and would gladly welcome such