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Enclosure 1.
Copy
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Hong Kong, 15th September, 1911.
CO
34953
IBCGP
Sir,
REGE 30 OCT !!
We have the honour to refer to our letter to you of the
18th April last.
2.
On the 9th August last we were informed by the Colonial
Secretary of this Colony "that the Secretary of State for
the Colonies has received your letter of the 18th of last
April but is of opinion that Ordinances No.39 of 1909 and
No.6 of 1911 should not be amended in the manner suggested
by you".
We must strongly but respectfully deprecate this
indirect method of reply. A letter to you from a firm of
Solicitors in England would receive a direct answer.
We are
unable to see why a similar courtesy should not be extended
to English Solicitors practising abroad. Our letter enumer-
ated the various points on which our Clients contended, they
were not getting fair treatment, moderately and respectfully
put forward, and in respect of which our Clients felt they
were aggrieved and justly aggrieved owing to the Ordinances
of the Local Legislature and the decisions of the local
Government. They considered, before taking other steps,
their proper course was to address you on the subject
setting out their reasons for feeling they were not being
fairly treated. If they are merely to get a reply in the
nature of an abrupt negative conveyed through another
channel which had previously adopted the same attitude
they will feel, and do feel, that to appeal to you involves
a waste of time and expense and a receipt of any other
consideration at your hands than that already given by the
local Government is out of the question.
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