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derived from Government buildings let for profit and to give the necessary instructions to the Government of the Straits Settlements

so soon as other outstanding matters of divergence of opinion had been settled.

3. A committee appointed by the Treasury to recommend a solution of the whole problem, reported to that Department in 1914, but the war intervened to prevent any further action, and the matter has since

been in abeyance.

4.

do not

in these circumstances think it desirable press the matter further.

I have, etc.

"although a final adjustment of the matter

with the S. S. is not yet in sight, I fear

that I cannot approve of a change in the practice hitherts comelly followed in

Hongkong,

which that for has admitted to be the

practics. I have in

couler practice.

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The Sec.

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Mr.

Mr.

Mr. Grindle.

Sir H. Lambert.

Sir H. Read.

Sir G. Fiddes.

Mr. Wood.

Mr. Churchill.

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receipt of your

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Sfuly, No. 10/3255 (7.1).

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