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of the Chinese Members should be increased from two to

three, one of whom shall be elected by the Chinese General

Chamber of Commerce of Hongkong.

That these Resolutions be submitted to the Government of

Hongkong for favourable consideration, and for transmission

to the Secretary of State for the Colonies.

In selecting this Chamber as the "college of electors" for

the additional Chinese member, the meeting was guided by two

considerations: one is that the Hongkong General Chamber of Commerce

at present sends a representative to the Legislative Council, and

the other is that the Chinese General Chamber of Commerce is

undoubtedly the most representative Chinese body, composed, es it

is, of property-owners and practically all the Chinese merchants,

traders and guilds in the Colony.

Until the principle of election is modelledon

the system in Vogue in Great Britain, or, at least, until a really

workable system of election is adopted, this Chambers of the

opinion that the present method of nomination as applied to the

existing two Chinese representatives should continue.

The additional representative asked for by the

Meeting is for the purpose of maintaining, more or less, the pre-

sent ratio of two Chinese to four European Unofficial Members, in

the event of the total number of Unofficials being increased to

eight, as advocated by the Congi tutional Reform Association.

By

reason of their great preponderance in the population and in the

roll of tax-payers of the Colony, the Chinese consider it but fair

to ask that at least this proportion should be maintained at all

times.

In a speech delivered at a meeting of the

Legislative Council on the 19th. April, 1917, His Excellency the

Governor, Sir Henry May, stated that the Chinese owned four-fifths

of the wealth of this Colony, and paid 97 per cent. of the rates

and taxes. This being 80, the Chinese may, when the right time

comes,

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