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Extract from H. K. Government ofayette 20-6-41

QUESTIONS.

4. The Honourable Mr. JOHN JOHNSTONE PATERSON, pursuant to notice, asked the

following questions:-

1. Will the Government give statistics of the incidence of evacuation on the

wives of senior Government Officers, namely -

(a) wives not in the Colony when the evacuation was ordered,

(b) wives departed since that date,

(c) wives recommended for exemption by the Evacuation Advisory

Committee,

(d) cases still pending when further compulsory evacuation was

suspended?

2. In how many cases was the recommendation of the Evacuation Advisory

Committee over-ruled by higher authority?

The Colonial Secretary replied as follows:

The replies to these questions are as follows, taking "senior officer" as including the following 22 officers, namely both Judges, all official members of both Councils, all First Class cadets and all other heads of the principal departments of Government, but exclusive of three un- married officers in those categories:

1. (a) 5.

(b) 9.

(c) 6. (d) 2.

2. Nil.

No exemptions were granted except the six cases mentioned in 1 (c) above.