CO129-465 - Public Offices & Others - 1920 — Page 29

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The Interdepartmentul Conference of 1913 ouie to no fina

decision ws to the aliceation of fees paid in commotion with

the inco pozution of, and the returna to be made from time to

time by, China Companies which were still to be, incorporateć under the Hongkong Ordinances, and the despatch of His Nxoellency

the Governor of longkong, now under consideration, given oppor- tunity for the suggestion that, as the protection Locordel to China Couponins is Imperial and not dolèmial, a subutuntikl

part of the Isen puid ut hanghii might well be allocated to tha

expence of maintenance of X„Hl'a Consular Servios in Chins,

un Hay 15th 1919, you & A 1. Registrar of Companies ut Shanghai, in commenting on the proposals of the Hongkong 7 Government ag to the financing of the Shanghai iegistry, wrote

to Had. Hinister -aking, as follows! –

"I strongly of opinion that the very largJO revenus be derived from the segistry of Compaisu, which promimem to

mot less and probably considerably more than $100,000 a year,

should be devoted to the maintenance of the public service im

China rather than to the Colony of llongkong, whose enjy alɛim

would seem to be the adoption of its legislation".

*The preseeing point is of course one which ruise a

inutes of a magnitude which places it far beyond my peovince: but fidling the possibility of auch u polfoy, i would udvooste the contribu ion by the ilongkong Governant of at least $10,000 a youz to the Consular Chest, representing one-hulf of the salary and allowwiona of a Consular Dilioer (u Vice Goneul 1

a salary of (800 a month) one half of the wury of a clerk (a) $100 a month) 4250 a worth towards the adequate se nunétuti

of the Grown „dvoɑute, and „100 a monthi towards rent und office expenses, the lust-nued being then included in the

zenezul expenses of the Consulate."

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