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wore formed for the promotion of "commerce",

have his "license" to dispense with the word

*Limited" on their title, I think it would

be well that they should no longer occupy n

privileged position being not under the name

control as "China Companies", while, as has

already been found in practice, being free of

any control by the Supreme Court of Hongkong,

the Filot Associations have, I think, no wish

to evade the jurisdiction of the Supreme Court

here.

2. As to Life and Fire Insurance Companies,

the Companies Ordinance, 1911, provides by

article 268 that "nothing in this Grdinance

'shall affect the provisions of the Life In-

'surance Companies Ordinance, 1907, or the

"Insurance Companies Ordinance, 1908."

If

any such article is embodied in the proposed

new liongkong Companies Ordinance the powers

of control given by the ordinances of 1967

and