CO129-476 - Acting Governor Claud Severn & Governor Sir Stubbs - 1922 [8-12] — Page 121

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Form of Undertaking.

(Alien Missionary Ordinance, 1922.)

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(s.

4.)

hereby undertake

to pay all due obedience and respect to the Goverment of

the Colony of Hongkong, and while carefully abstaining from

participation in political affairs, I desire and purpose ex animo to work in friendly co-operation with the said

Government in all matters in which my influence may properly be exerted; and, in particular, I undertake, if engaged in

educational work, that my influence shall be exerted to

promete loyalty to the Government of the Colony in the minds of my papils, and to make them good citizens of the British

Empire.

Dated

(-$995.comestical)

1.

(Signature)

Obiects and Reasons.

The object of this bill is, as the title shows, to provide for the regulation and supervision of the carrying on of missionary, educational and other philanthropic work in the Colony by aliens.

2.

The experience of the war has shown that in some parts of the Empire certain foreign societies and individual s engaged in work of this nature were not able to prevent their national instincts from prejudicing the public security, and that some supervision is necessary.

3.

It has accordingly been decided that societies or organisations of former enemy character, and their individual members of former enemy nationality er birth, irrespective of the nature of their religious belief,