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REC 28 MAY 23,
GOVERNMENT HOUSE.
HONGKONG. 18th April, 1923.
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My Lord Duke,
I have the honour to acknowledge the receipt of Your Grace's despatch No.24 of February 2nd approving my proposal that the Governor of Hongkong should be authorized
to pay official visits to Maceo without obtaining specific permission in each case.
2.
My proposal, as indicated in my despatch No.397 of the 18th of December, 1922, was made in anticipat- · ion of the necessity of exchanging visits with the new
Governor of Macao.
Dr. Rodrigo Rodrigues, the new Governor,
arrived in Hongkong on January 3rd from Europe, accompanied by his wife and family and left for Macao in the Portuguese Gunboat "Patria" on the following day. I had invited him to
stay with me but he declined to do so in view of the
shortness of his stay. (This meant, as I gather from the
Consul-General, that Madame Rodrigues wanted to tranship her baggage direct to the "Patria" without unpacking.) He
lunched with me on the 4th of January to meet the higher
officials of the Colony and some of the leading members of the local Portuguese community.
3.
Dr. Rodrigues, who is a member of the
medical profession and was, I understand, for a long time Principal Medical Officer at Goa, has not the strong
personal ity
THE RIGHT HONOURABLE
THE DUKE OF DEVONSHIRE, K.G.,
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