Wt. 29446/552 9/46 50m. S. & S. Ltd,
C. O.
Mr. Galsworthy
Mr.
Mr..
Mr.
Roberts - Wray May le
54145/4A/47
Non- No. 690
31/7/47
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Permt. U.S. of S.
Parly. U.S. of S.
Secretary of State.
For Mr. Mayle's signature
August, 1947.
DRAFT. LETTER.
D.M. MACDOUGALL, ESQ., C.M.G.,
COLONIAL SECRETARY,
HONG KONG.
3 Ordinances h/with
(55 on 54147/4/47)
FURTHER ACTION.
CONFIDENTIAL
Thank you very much for your letter of
()the 19th June enclosing the first drafts of the
Municipal Ordinances prepared by Hazlerigg.
Hazlerigg told us he was proposing to
ask you to send us these first drafts. At the
time when we were still going into the details
of the franchise, Hazlerigg very kindly came
down from Shropshire to see us, towards the end
of May, and although he had not brought back
with him copies of the drafts, he was able
to supply from his memory of them certain
supplementary information on matters of
detail relating to the franchise, which cleared
up a number of points which had not been
entirely apparent to us before. The result of
our conference with him was, as you know, the
suggestion in the Secretary of State's secret
telegram No.875 of the 1st June, to which you
subsequently agreed.
It was at that talk with Hazlerigg
that he told us he proposed asking you to send
us copies of the drafts, since he felt it might
save time and further telegraphic correspondence
with you if we had them by us. In the event,
however,
No comments yet.
Private notes are available after approval.