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House of

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Date.

1912

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Civil Police services

20 hich 7. Mr. MacCallum Scott, To ask the Secretary of State for the Colonies, whether

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he is aware that Ho Kai, Esq., of Hong Kong, was educated at Hong Kong and at Aberdeen University that he graduated M.B., and is a member of the Royal College of Surgeons that he was called to the bar at Lincoln's Inn that he has been for 20 years a member of the Legislative Council of Hong Kongt

"that he was created a C.M.G. in 1902 and that the King conferred the honour of knighthood on him on Monday of last week whether he is now satisfied that there is some chance of British-born Chinese being successful in the competitive examination for the Eastern Cadet service ;aud whether he will therefore alter the new regulation made by the Colonial Office whereby all British subjects, who are not of pure European descent on both sides, are excluded from the civil and police services of Hong Kong, the Straits Settlements, and the Federated Malay States. Wednesday 27th March.1

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