CO129-454 - Acting Governor Claud Severn - 1919 [4-6] — Page 274

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121.

My Lord,

RES

34015

EL JUN 19

GOVERNMENT HOUSE.

HONGKONG. 16th. April, 1919.

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I have the honour to inform Your Lordship

that I have recently received an application from the General

Chamber of Commerce of the Tung Kun District for registration

in this Colony as a Company limited by Guarantee, with a

licence to omit the word "Limited". The District of Tung Kun

is situated in the Province of Canton and lies between the

City of Canton and the District of San On, which forms the

Northern Boundary of the New Territories.

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The Memorandum and Articles of Association

which accompanied the application were reported on by the

Secretary for Chinese Affairs as follows:-

"I put the following points for your considera-

"-tion in the matter of the Tung Kun District AssociR-

"-tion. It falls between a "Company" and a "Society"

"the essence of it is without doubt a "Society" as know

"in the Colony, and the attempt to force it into the "form of a Company is not very successful. Quite a number *of the Articles deal with objects which are proper

"neither for a Company nor for a Society: and which in "fact constitute some part of the reasons for the "restrictive legislation of the Societies Ordinance. It "would be a pity if those very necessary restrictions *could be evaded by simple registration as a Company".

THE RIGHT HONOURABLE

VISCOUNT MILNER, G.C.B.,

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