CO129-555-1 Hong Kong Tramways Ltd.- petition 10-7-1935 - 4-10-1935 — Page 20

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disingenuous statement that the China Motor Bus Company

remains as heretofore Chinese owned, controlled, managed,

operated and staffed". The control and management of

the Bus Company is in Chinese hands but the Chinese are

also British to the extent required by the licence and

unless British subjects of Chinese race are to be

described simply as "Chinese" as distinct from the

"British" of paragraph 11 of the petition, I must protest

in the strongest terms at this attack on the China Motor

Bus Company which is indirectly an attack on this

Government for gross dereliction of duty in ignoring and

condoning the breach of the basic condition of the Road

Passenger Transport Licence granted to the China Motor

Bus Company. I deprecate the employment by the Hong Kong

Tramways of racial discrimination in support of its

arguments.

I must further deprecate the use of the word

"gamble" in paragraph 37 of the petition to describe the

tender of the China Motor Bus Company which was accepted

by this Government and the allegation that in order to back

the "gamble", the terms of the tender and licence are

being departed from. Condition 12(1) of Government Notifica-

tion S.319 (Appendix G) clearly states:-

As a guide to tenderers, and subject to

consideration of tenders, the lists of fares

considered reasonable as maximum fares are specified

in Schedules B and D to this notice.

The maximum fares quoted were the fares in force in the

then existing undertakings. That no second class fares

were quoted in respect of certain routes was due to the

fact that at that time there were no such fares in force.

The conditions as to fares in the licence are set out in

Condition 8 (page 59 Appendix H) reading as follows:-

The fares which may be demanded and taken by

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