CO129-384 - Public Offices - 1911 — Page 561

In any further communication

on this subject, please quote

No.

35786/11.

and address→→

Tho Under-Secretary of State,

Foreign Office,

London.

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31053 558

RES A5 FOREIGN OFFICE

September 23

1911.

Sir:-

th

of Frade. Stember 15°

With reference to the conference held at this

Office on the 12th. instant respecting the proposals

for an alteration of the present system of registration

of British Companies trading at Shanghai, I am directed

by Secretary Sir E. Grey to state that he sees no

objection to the immediate enactment of the Consolida-

ting Companies Ordinance proposed by the Hongkong

Government, draft of which was enclosed in your letter

No. 24,344 of the 16th. ultimo; but that it is not

considered that the Ordinance would in its present

form satisfy the needs of the Shanghal Community, or

justify the Secretary of State in abandoning the scheme

outlined in the letter of August 28th. from this Depart-

ment to the Board of Trade for enabling British Compan-

ies to obtain all the benefits of local registration

in Shanghai, though actually incorporated in London.

Sir

e Under Secretary of State,

Colonial Office.