CO129-469 - Governor Sir Stubbs - 1921 [9-12] — Page 527

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HONGKONG.

GOVERNMENT HOUSE.

14th December, 1921.

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I have the honour to acknowledge the receipt

of your despatch No.310 of the 27th September and to express my regret that an ambiguous phrase was used in my despatch No.277 of 14th July with regard to Mr. Holyoak's absence. Mr. Holyoak was actually absent from the Colony so that there was no irregularity in the appointment of Mr. Lang to set in his place.

2. Curiously engough however, the point teken in

the second paragraph of your despatch had just attracted my

notice in connection with another case in which Mr. Lang

3519 was to act in Mr. Holyoak's place. (See my despatch No.451

of 10th December.) Mr. Holyoak was ill for some weeks

before he left the Colony and was unable to attend the

Council. Mr. Lang had been nominated by the Chamber of

Commerce to take Mr. Holyonk's place during his absence

from the Colony but in view of the wording of Article IV of

the Royal Instructions he could not be appointed to act

while Mr. Holyoak was in Hongkong. As the Estimates for

1922 were under the consideration of the Finance Committee,

the absence of a representative of the Chamber of Commerce would have been very inconvenient and it was arranged that Mr. Lang should attend the meetings of the Committee

informally

THE RIGHT HONOURABLE

WINSTON CHURCHILL, M.P.,

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&c.,

&c.