CO129-433 - Governor Sir May - 1916 [5-6] — Page 229

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Sonclosure 44.

a.

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Colonial Secretary's Office,

18th,

Hong KonE.

Karch,

1916.

I am directed to acknowledge the receipt of your

letter of the 9th, instant stating that you have sent to the

Secretary of State for the Colonies a Petition, with oopy

of the signatures thereto together with a covering letter

and enclosures, praying for greater Un-official represent-

ation on the Couzoils of the Colony, and enclosing copies of

the documents with the signatures to the Petition in original

for the information of the Governor,

In reply I am to transmit to you a copy of Jolonial

Regulation No. 213 and to point out that your sotion in

forwarding the Petition to the Secretary of State for the

Colonies direct is irregular and does not serve any useful

object.

With regard to your request that all despatches

from the Governor to the secretary of State on this subject

should be published, I am to paint out that His Excellency

kas no objection whatever to that course but since the

correspondence will be addressed to the Secretary of State

its publication is a matter for the Secretary of State to

decide.

As a lawyer you will appreciate the importance in

a matter of this kind of referring your quotations of opinions

of Kosara. Landale and Shellim to the principals. I attack

for your information the enclosed correspondence on the subject.

I am also to forward for your information correspond-

ance with the Chinese Un-official Members of Council on the