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thank you to them. I thank also particularly the messengers who have had to come trailing all the way over from Hong Kong time after time with little bits of letters and bits of papers, all marked "very urgent" especially from the Resettlement Department. Everything that comes in from the Resettlement Department is very urgent. It is a standing joke in my office now when these envelopes are brought in because I usually open them and I find, well, it is nothing at all urgent. I mean it is a notice of a meeting about 2 weeks hence or something of that sort. (Laughter). At any rate, the poor chap who brought these over has come tearing over very fast in all weathers, fog, rain and every- thing, and I do wish that you would convey my thanks to them for having done this.

I do not want to take up any more time because it is already six o'clock and every body is dying to get home. I would thank you too, Mr. Chairman, perhaps before I go, for having allowed the few ultra vires questions that you have allowed. I regret that so many of the facts in this Council, the things we have to talk about in this Council, eventually always become ultra vires. I think this will be put right when the Report for Reforms is accepted. I hope so. (Applause).

MR. BERNACCHI :-Mr. Chairman, on a point of explanation, I will say in this public meeting, (Laughter), I never said Dr. BELL's protest was a negative approach. I was reported as saying it, but I never in fact said it.

ADJOURNMENT

6.00 P.M.

CHAIRMAN:-That concludes the business of this meeting. Council stands adjourned until the 1st April, 1969 at 4 p.m.

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