CO129-498-16 Port Development Department- reversion to status of sub-department of the Public Works Department 26-4-1926 - 22-6-1926 — Page 7

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Mr.

Mr. E. J. Harding.

Mr. Strachey.

Sir J. Shuckburgh.

Sir G. Grindle.

Sir C. Davis.

Sir S. Wilson.

Mr. Ormsby-Gore.

Earl of Clarendon.

Mr. Amery.

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Sir,

I have the honour to

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CONFIDENTIAL.

Gov. Clementi.

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acknowledge the receipt of your

Confidential despatch of the 26th

of April requesting my sanction

for the instructions which you have

given for the Port Development

Department to revert to the status

of a sub-department of the Public

W.P

Works Department 2, I should,

..

owever, prefer to defer a

final

decision in the matter until I have

received and have had an opportunity

of considering the report of the

Imperial Shipping Committee, to whom,

as you are aware, the question of

the