Hongkong underlying which there has] been an inuendo or slur on the good name of the Colony. These questions, we *cannot believe, are asked maliciously by the honourable members who ask then. We are forced therefore to believe that these questioners are mere marionettes daucing vigorously though unconsciously to the wire-pulling of Empire breakers at Home and abroad. It is time that the resentment against these charges should find expression. The resentiment is not confined to unofficial members; it is a resentment which pervades the whole community, and is shared by officials as well. We also would like to see that those who advise the Secretary of State on this and other important questions have an intimate and actual knowledge of the place on which they are advising. Otherwise there is a grave danger that they will be talking through their toes. We would like to see some official or un- official who has retired from the Colony and knows it well, on this advisory body. We are not afraid of the results of any enquiry that may be made into the social life bère, because we believe that Hong- kung is a clean city, socially and mor ally. It is a town of over a million in- habitants, one of the largest ports in the world, a parrison town and a naval station and the abiding place tempor arily or permanently--of poople of all sorts and conditions and of every race and 'tongue; nevertheless we are prepared to say that morally we can stand in favour able comparison with any town of its size , in the five continents of the seven seas. I therefore beg to add my support to this resolution.
H.E. THE GOVERNOR : This motion
being the expression of the views of the
Unofficial Members, it out of place and out of order.
for Official Members to express mother an opinion on any point
except as to whether it should be forward.
ed to the Secretary of State, and the
Ivotes of Official Members are confined
entirely to that question.
The motion was agreed to.
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