CO129-514-6 Question of legality of sale of water to Tai Koo Sugar Refining Co. Ltd.- from... 6-12-1928 - 23-12-1929 — Page 81

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15.

C.S.0. 3241/22.

Hon: a.G. (Attorney General, Hong Kong)

1.

2.

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Letter sent. (50) completed.

Letter $ 10.9.28, * Draft

letter.

Duplicate permit detached and placed in my safe in

accordance with your para. 3. Copy substituted.

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3.

Files enumerated in your para. 5 withdrawn.

4.

Paras. 4 & 6 noted.

5.

Copy letter of 11th September, 1928 from Messrs. Johnson,

Stokes & Master attached.

6.

You know my view, viz., that the Government's only stand

and control rests on and in the permit; and that if the Government

is not prepared, if necessary, to go to the length of refusing to

renew the pipe-line permit for 1929, the sooner the case is

dropped the better.

7.

Until Counsel express a clear opinion as to the tenable

positions, this includes elimination of other positions the

stand on the Crown Lease may be one it would seem that the

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correspondence between me as Crown Solicitor and lessrs. Johnson,

Stokes & Master must be held up, unless you advise that they be

asked whether the Government's right to refuse renewal of the

permit is contested by their clients.

8.

I think that this should be a sealed cover file.

Sd. H.K. Holmes

Crown Soliqitor

12. 9. 28.