CO129-572-11 Agricultural indebtedness- request for information on behalf of bishop of Hong Kong 3-3-1938 - 24-4-1939 — Page 13

ORDIT

Colonial Secretary's Office.

Phong Phong.

24th April, 1939.

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My dear Gerard,

In a recent letter which I have mislaid

you reminded me as to the return of certain documents

relating to Agricultural Indebtedness which you sent

out with your letter of 16th May, 1938. I now return

the two documents concerned, that is, Sir Ernest M.

Dowson's Note on the Agricultural Indebtedness in the Zanzibar Protectorate and Mr. B.J. Surridge's Report

on Co-operation and Agricultural Credit in Cyprus. I apologize for the delay which has been added by the

recent absence of the Bishop on a visit to Kwangsi. That is now almost the principal field of his activities and there were reports, fortunately apocryphal, that he was contemplating removing his

Cathedral there.

Any possibility of doing anything about

agricultural conditions has of course receded into the

dim future, and we have plenty of other things to

think of at present.

G.L.M. Clauson, Esq., C.M.G., O.B.E.,

Colonial Office.

LONDON.

Yours sincerely,

ame