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Andrew William Juster.

Andrew Smith.

Jobu D. Polley. J. M. Cormack, D. M. Mackay. D. Young. L. J. Blake. Wm. J. Clark.

D. Austin.

J. A. Hunter. A. Leon.

D. McNeillie.

John P. Middleton.

Alex. A. Whitchen. P. Walter Ramsay. Wm. Bell.

Walter Henry Prowse. Andrew William Millar. Charles Mackay. Thomas Grimshaw. J. C. Ferguson. J. Millar. John Weir.

J. Brand Chapman. William Lyle. David Harvey. Andrew M. Simpson. L. C. Blackburn.

James Porter Robinson, Frank S. Cooke,

S. E. Gree.

H. Overy.

T. Duncan. J. W. Christian. David S. Cooper.

James S. McIntosh. J. Vincent Braga. A. D. Gee.

Oscar R. C. Chunyut. R. Abraham,

J. Walker,

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Norman L. Railton. R. C. Atkinson. E. Abraham.

A. Bryson. D. Neilson. W. L. Weaser. James Hyde. David Mason, Clark Atkinson. R. A. Nicholson. Robt. Howard. H. H. Wilson. D. A. Goodwin. R. Kennedy. David Gow. David A. Purves. B. E. Redstone. W. Nicholls.

Andrew R. Kinross. J. Colin Owen. W. H. Whiteley. J. J. Spradbery. W. Tulip.

D. Keith.

James G. Garraway.

Arthur Iresou,

David Gordon Dricoll.

James Henderson.

W. G. Baker.

G. F. Matthews.

G. Edwards.

W. Carstairs. G. H. Alcock. R. J. Dixon. F. C. Coleman. G. A. Lloyd Kay. M. E. Neidsen. W. M. Paul.

H. McCombie.

N. L. Railton.

Enclosure 4 (a).

2003/1915.

HONGKONG, 18th March, 1916,

SIR, I am directed to acknowledge the receipt of your letter of the 9th instant stating that you have sent to the Secretary of State for the Colonies a Petition, with copy of the signatures thereto together with a covering letter and enclosures, praying for greater Un-official representation on the Councils of the Colony, and enclosing copies of the documents with the signatures to the Petition in original for the information of the Governor.

In reply I am to transmit to you a copy of Colonial Regulation No. 213 and to point out that your action in forwarding the Petition to the Secretary of State for the Colonies direct is irregular and does not serve any useful object.