CO129-534-3 Report of Retrenchment Commission 4-5-1931 - 19-2-1932 — Page 37

No. 470.

Sir,

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GOVERNMENT HOUSE,

HONG KONG, 4th November, 1931.

I have the honour to inform you that the Report of the Retrenchment Commission, a copy of whose Report has already been forwarded to you, has

been very carefully considered by myself and my advisers and I now enclose a statement showing how far the Government feels able to go towards accepting the recommendations and commenting generally on the

Report. Neither the Report nor the Commentary now forwarded has yet been made public, but copies of both have been supplied to the Members of my Executive Council who, after a full consideration of

their contents, concur in my opinion that, subject to

your approval of such a course, the two documents

should be published as they stand as a Sessional Paper.

The Unofficial Members of the Executive Council had no

comments to offer on the Report or on the

recommendations.

2.

The Commentary deals with the Report fully and I will confine myself here to a few general

The proposal to replace Europeans by

remarks.

THE RIGHT HONOURABLE

J. H. THOMAS, M.P.,

&c.,

&C.,

&c.

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