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a

received by/separate Municipality.

conditions are not reproduced in the

Straits Settlements, Ceylon, or

Mauritius, and I do not think there

is any likelihood of any of them

proposing to adopt a similar system. (Apart from this I do not quite see,

if you decide that it is a good

system to adopt in Hong Kong,

These

I's extension

why you should be afraid of adopting

elsewhere,

will

(5)

As you have seen from

our official letter of the 14th of

December, the Hong Kong Government

is not now prepared to waive the

refund of £114,000 overpaid.

(6) Our not writing to the

Treasury was an oversight and we

have now sent them a copy of our

official letter to you of the

12th of October.

Yours sincerely,

(16)

Signed) W. C. BOTTOMLE

( In the absence of Sir G. Grindle