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in the Straits Settlements register are entitled to practice, though in some cases it is necessary for their names to be published in the Gazette.
5. The situation is, therefore, that if Mr. Hastings' view is accepted that the holders of Hong Kong Emergency Degrees will be entitled to be registered as Medical Practitioners in Malaya as well as in Hong Kong.
6. This being so, I do not know quite what is meant by the suggestion in paragraph 4 of Mr. Hezeltine's letter (32) that "temporary registration" (? with the G.M.C) should be effected, but in the circumstances it does not seem necessary.
7.
The members of the proposed Committee have all accepted the invitation to serve on it and I am telegraphing to Dr. Gordon King asking if we may now have urgently a full list of the candidates and the necessary particulars to lay before the Committee. May we now have authority to arrange for the issue of the Order in Council? In response to your request for a final vetting of the draft (your minute of the 11th May) Mr. Roberts Wray made some drafting adjustments. Since the draft has not been touched and I have placed it in the form agreed by
Mr. Roberts Wray on the opposite side of the file.
8.
In connection with the machinery for getting the Order through, I have spoken to Mr. A.W.Smith who has kindly got in touch with the Privy Council Offices to find out when the next meeting was likely to be held. He tells me that unfortunately a meeting is taking place today and that it is not expected there will be another for some weeks, in view of the probability that the King will be going away and Parliament dispersed. In these circumstances he suggests that perhaps would consider having a word with Mr. Leadbitter, Clerk of the Council, with a view to seeing whether it would be possible to call a special meeting of the Privy Council.
A. Me
24th August, 1945
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