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"submit, have led to the unjustifiable imposition of control.

My clients feel certain that your Committee will in all

"fairness grant them their plea for the line of inquiry suggested

" and give them audience at such inquiry by Counsel.

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In the event of this letter being inadequate to elucidate

" and fully express my clients' views, I respectfully seek an

" interview with your Committee for Counsel to be heard on their

" behalf. Some of the committee members of the Association are

" also desirous of being present at this interview, if your

"Committee should be so courteously disposed as to grant the

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Yours respectfully,

(Signed) Marcus da Silva."

12. Regrettably the Hotels Advisory Committee did not adopt the

suggestions made and proceeded upon a course of inquiry whereby :

(a) Questionnaire forms were sent to all Hotels and Boarding

Houses to be filled in and independent questionnaire

forms were sent to hotel residents;

(b) Balance sheets of accounts of various Hotels and

Boarding Houses were asked for and inspected;

(c)

(a)

The Committee undertook in due course to hear the views

of the Hotels and Boarding Houses Association stating

that the Association's Counsel would be given "ample

opportunity for presenting their clients' views when

the time comes."; and

The Committee undertook to hear views of any Hotels

Residents Association or any similar body.

13. In the course of this inquiry, Your Petitioners supplied, in addition to the balance sheets and accounts presented, a detailed

analysis in each case by one of the most reputable of firms of

Chartered Accountants in the Colony and Your Petitioners are

desirous of pointing out that in all the analyses presented, no

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