CO129-488 - Governor Sir Stubbs - 1925 [1-7] — Page 277

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#ISON, STOKES & MASTER.

Sir,

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Prince's Buildings,

Ice House Street,

Hongkong 6th May, 1925.

Bank of Canton Ltd.-Your Reference No.196/1919.

We are instructed by our clients, the Bank of Canton Ltd. to inform you that they wish to bring forward again a Bill to authorise them to convert their gold capital into silver:

We are instructed accordingly to forward to you the enclosed draft of such Bill in duplicate, and to

request you to consider the same in the light of the

Objects and Reasons attached thereto, and our clients

trust that your Goverment will submit the same to His

Majesty's Secretary of State with an expression of your Government's provisional approval of the same, and that you will ask His Majesty's Secretary of State to let you know if possible by telegram whether it has the

provisional approval of His Majesty'■ Government prior to its being introduced into the Legislative Council of Hongkong.

We have etc.,

(sd.) JOHNSON, STOKES & MASTER.

The Honourable

The Colonial Secretary.