CO129-491 - Public Offices - 1925 — Page 23

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desired by IK.

that an Englishman should be placed

in charge of this office.

Sir E.Stubbs thought that.

this might be a way out in the last

resort if it should prove impossible

to get the office removed from the

Colony. He asked Mr.Dobinson with

whom were the Telegraph Company

negotiating, and what stage had the

negotiations reached? Ead this

question of the removal of the Telegraph

practical issue,

Office ever been raised? That is, had

the Telegraph Company been given any defunted.

Settlement

indication that the reiging of this

question would in fact prejudice their

negotiations? He was very doubtful

whether this was the case. What is it

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that the Telegraph Company ess obtain

if this office is allowed to remain

not in the Colony which they would obtain

if the office were removed?

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He did not see why the

interests of the Hong Kong Government

should again be sacrificed to the

interests of the Company as they had

been done on the previous occasion.

After all the Company is a commercial

concern, and is well able to pay for

the advantages which it gets from the

Chinese

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