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CONSTITUTIONAL REFORM ASSOCIATION OF HOUSING NOV 17
Hongkong, 29th August, 1917.
The Right Honourable
the Secretary of State for the Colonies.
gir,
On behalf of the recently formed Constitutional Refern Association of Hongkong, (the Committee of which includes four Hembers of the Legislative Council, two former members thereof, and fourteen Justices of the Peace) of which I enclose a copy of the Rules and Regulations, I beg leave to draw your attention to paragraph (b) of claude 2, the Objects clause which covers two points, both of which are of considerable importance at the present time, namely:-
1. The claim of this Colony to express its views, by its own direct representative, on post-war trade policy: and
2. The claim of this colony to direct representation on any Imperial Council Parliament or Association to be formed as part of a Boheme of Imperial Federation or Unity.
Upon the above two points the Hongkong Jeneral Chamber
of Commerce, comprising our local experts in trade, shipping and
finance, in a letter to the Hongkong Government, dated the 8th
January last í a copy of which has been forwarded to you in con-
nection with the Recommendations of the Boonomic Conference of
the Allies) expressed their views as follows:-
"In view of the fact that a Conference of representa-
tives of the United Kingdom the Dominions and India, as fore-
shadowed by the Frime Minister recently, may at some future
date be convened, it appeara desirable to my Committee that
application should be made by the Colonies to have their nominees
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