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The certificates possessed are as follows:
E. Dillon. (a), Royal Engineers. Sepper, 25th Coy. Skilled
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Surveyor. (Sa.) H. S. King, Mejor. (14.6.01).
(b). Transferred to Army Reserve.
Statement by Mr. B.W.Grey in relation to a
survey of portion of Kowloon Farm Lot No.4. 11th March, 1913.
(a). Letter signed by Mr. W. Chatham. Language
allowance must stand over until salary ques-
tion is settled. 8.7.19.
(b). Letter signed by Mr. W. Chatham. Stating H.E.
the Officer Administering the Government will allow him to qualify for full language allow-
22.7.19.
(c). Letter signed by Mr. C. Clementi. Stating he
has served as Land Bailiff in Northern Dis-
District of New Kowloon for 6 months with satisfaction. He also saved the office records from the collapse when the matshed was blown down. He was useful with his Chinese colloquial. 26.9.06.
(d). Letter signed by Mr. C. Clementi. Conveying
thanks of His Excellency for work done in assisting in bringing the (land questions) work to a conclusion.
(e). Certificate from Mr. Messer. He joined the
Land Office staff at Taipo as acting Lend Bailiff 1.1.06 and left 28.12.06. Character
excellent.
(f). Letter from Mr. T. Sercombe Smith. Conveying
thanks of His Excellency for commendable con-
duct in reboulu Land Office Records at Taipo during storm 24.9.06.
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(h). First Certificate. (P.C.86, John Mackay)
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(j). Royal Sanitary Institute Certificate. Examine-
tion for Inspector, Muisances.
I am not able to pass an opinion on the extent of either Mr. Dillon's or Mr. Mackay's Chinese (Cantonese) know- ledge but it would be of assistance to them in dealing with the Chinese with whom they come in contact in the course of their day's work. Neither of these men are accompanied on their rounds by en interpreter.
Personally I should not set any store by Mr.Dillon's surveyor's certificate out it argues ne would be capable of taking useful rough measurements and do small surveys. Mr. Grey's statement regarding his work on Kowloon Farm Lot 4 bears this out. Our point of view of a "skilled surveyor" goes beyond this and includes a knowledge sufficient for carrying out or directing any class of field survey.
Neither of these men could be classed with our surveyors in my opinion.
Generally these men have large areas to cover. Mackay for Kowloon, Dillon for Hongkong. Chinese have a way of encroaching on Crown Land and I think these men carry out their duties very well.
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question is is his remuneration a reasonable one or not.
The basis to work upon is, I submit, what they received a salary in 1914 which has become through a variety
of circumstances, insufficient.
They are dissatisfied with the proposals Govern-
ment has made, ae are likewise the Overseers.
I suggest that the Land Bailiffs should be rated
with the Overseers in whatever increases are given to the latter as a result of their petition now forwarded for
consideration.
A. H. Hollingsworth
Acting Director of Public Works,
9th July, 1920.
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Viscount Milner P.C., G.C.B., 9.0.x,G.
H ̧N,Oserstary of State for the Colonies de,ko, hê.
The Humble Petition of the undersi ga od
Overseaza in the Pubile Works Depart-
ment, Hongkong.
Shereth as follow:-
Your Petitioners are the first and second Class ÖVŒFSQLTS
in the Publie Works Department, Hongkong.
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Your Petitioners are all men of Baropean Kase, and before appointment were fully trained and qualified in their respective trades: the Colonial Govemment has not therefore incurred any
ense in training your petitioners who gommenee work on arrival
as experi eneed men.
3. The following copy of an advertisement insertedby the Crom Agents for the Colonies in "Mgineering" 13th June, 1919, Supple- ment page 77 shows the qualifications, training and experimee required for the initial appointment of a second Class Dverseer.
OY BAKITE (DRC AD GLABS)
REQUIRED by the Government of Hongkong for the Publis forka Department for a period of three years with possible exten- sion. Salary £200 rising to #230, Free passages and un-
Candidates should furnished quuarters. Age 25-30 unmarried,
be experienced in modern rond sonstruation, all branches, including asphaltie surfacing, tar paving, sett paving and gmeral maintmanee under a borough engineer, capable of mosmaring up and preparing statenets of werk done; or be experienced in earrying out good elass constructional and
how can I
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painting work, qualified to take out quantities including
measuring up and preparing estimates of cost, with practies)
training preferably as carpeters. - Apply by letter,
stating age and experimee to the CROWY AGZHTS FOR THE
COLONIES, 4, Millbank, London 8.7.1, quoting 1/8505.
A later advertisment taken from the Lloyd's Bunday Kors of
April, 25th, 1920 is as follows: –
TWO OVERSEERS (2nd Class) required by the Public Works
Department, for a period of three years, with possible
extension Balary £260, rising by annual increments of
£10 to £300 per annum. The surrmey of Hongkong is
that of the silver dollar, the exchange value of the
Dollar with sterling varying with the price of silver.
The salaries fixed in sterling are paid to officers
actually serving in Hongkong at the rate of conversion
fixed by the Government. This rate is now 2/- to the
dollar, but is liable to alteration. Free passages and
unfurnished quarters. Candidates, age 25-30, unmarried,
who must have served in some branch of His Majesty's
Forees during the late war, unless their resons for not
doing so are entirely satisfactory, and who are experi-
mead in modern road construction, all branches, including
asphaltie surfacing, tarpaving, nett paving, and gmeral
maintenanes, under a borough mgineer, capable of mess. 2o--- ing up and preparing statements of work done, should apply by letter, within one week from the date of this adverti se- mait, stating age and experience, to the Crow Agents for
the Colonies, 4 Millbank, London, 8.7.1 quoting M/8505.
v, dan yo
The following figures quoted from the Hongkong Xatimates
for 1920 show the value and importance of the work to
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suze slidui,
earried out this year under the supervision of your Petitioners.
blje Works Benirret. 1930.
Maintenance of Water Works, koads, Canals,
Buildings, Drains and Sewers, Telephones,
Telegraphs, Light houses, ses valls,
wharves, Piers, he, hê.
Public Works Extraordinary 1920
Total estimate
$3,424,200
➡rils Buf 19
Leon Ramaptions.
Net estimate for new construction
-185.000
$5, 239, 200
In addition to Public Works, five of your petitioners are
engaged under the Building Authority in enforcing the Building
Regulations in respect of all the private buildings in the
Colony (repairs and new buildings), and is supervising the mainam
tenmice of private streets and lanen,
Your petitioners submit that the quality and durability
of all these works depends largely upon the efficient di scharge
of their duties by your petitioners, and as sconoxy of upkeep
depends upon the quality of the work your pati tioners'duti on
are of permanent value to the Colony.
(1) The sole of pay for first class overseers was fixed
in 1906 as follows:-
£240 to 270 by annual inermeita of £10,
(a) The scale of pay for second cinas Overseers Vás fized
in 1912 or 1913 as follows;-
by anmial inerments of £10.
The salaries quoted are paid as to 80% at 18.9d, and as
to the balmas at the rate of the day: a esxpulsory deduction
of 4 for the Widows' and Orphans Pension Fund is also und 4.
In addition your pati tieners are provided with quarters
and passages.
0. The increase in the cost of living during the War rendered
the Pre-war rates quoted above absolutely inadequate and in 29/8.
Far Bonus of 10% was granted on all salaries.
The bonus referred vas insufficient to compmaate for the
increased cost of living, må as a result of numerous represe=
tations made by members of the Civil Serviss, on 24th January
1919 H.E. the Officer Administering the Government appointed a
Comision to mquire into the amoluments of the Public Service
of the Colony.
After the presmtation of the Report the Governmentgranted another bomis of 10% on all salaries, and it was understood that the sport of the Commissioners was referred to your Lordship.
12. Nothing further was heard of the Report until last month when your Fetitioners learnt that a new scale of salaries had been authorised by your Lordship as follows! -
First Class Överseers
(by annual increments of £10)
Second Class Üverseera
(by annual increments of £10)
2320 to 2360
2330 ta ESCO
All salaries to be paid at a 2/- dollar, and all
bonuses di seontimed.
Your Petitioners were also informed that a new class of
appointments had been created as follow#; »
Electrician
Clerk of Torks
Road Surveyor
Drainage Surveyor
Bentor Overseer
Building 3urveyor
2400 10 2600
2400 to £480.
save 1920 g THON
EUROT TR
These Officers were formerly Overseers, but reamt experi ence has shown that appointments are being made from outside, and that the prospect of my of your Petitioners being promoted to any of these posts is extrmaly remote.
Your Petitionere submit that the areation of this new class which is prastically alased to then, is unjust to them, and un- necessary in the interests of the Public Service, sa your rati- tioners have all the qualifications necessary for filling these posts and are now doing similar work to the officers holding them. The result is that your Petitioners have now lost all -- prospect of promotion beyond the £360 salary limit.
Apart from the question of these special posts your Petitioners are profoundly disappointed at the new scale as the cost of living, which increased during the Var, has, in Hongkong an in other parts of the world, contimied to rise since the amisties and appears to be still rising, whereas the proposed new seale of salaries is in some ensos less than the existing soale and in other cases shows a rise so mall as to be ingon- siderable, as shown in the following table,
an disaj LUNK HÍ
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BU KUTOK
July 1914 80% @ 1/9
ant Head 4
FIRST CLASS OYFRONTÉ
SECUID CLASS OVERSEŁK
Pre War Senie
remainder
Balary Peña Salary p.a. Salary pan. Salary pate Salary 224 Salary £270 Balary £20 Salary 2230
$215.68 $253.19
Less Widows &
Orphans'
Contribution
FIRST CLASS OVERSFER
Present Senle Viniman
Salary p.8. falary p.a.
SECOND CLASE OVERSTER
Salary pako
May 1920 Rate 502 U 1/9 remain- dar at 4/67
20% spesial. Allowance
Salary £240 fglamr 537) Salary £200 Salary
Less Vidows
& Orphans' Contributi on
New Beale Rate 2/- Balaw £320 Galew £360 Galary £220
Loan Vidawn
Contribution
$294.74.
The sasie oompares unfavourably with the salaries paid for similar work in England, and with salaries paid in the local Dock- yards and Shipbuilding establishments to man of similar training
The nëvertisement quoted and qualifientions to your Petitioners.
in paragraph 4 shows that the Crom Agests are now advertising the initial pay of Second Class Overseers at £260 instead of £230 in the new seals, from which it would appear that it is impossible to obtain overseara at £220 par BEIRIN.
17. Your Petitioners wish to remind your Lordship that the Minimum wage of Dock Labourers, who are totally unskilled and untrained and require ne education, has recently bem fixed in England at 88/- per week, equal to 2298. 16. 0. per annum, whilst it is proposed to pay to skilled and experienced Overseers in --
ten thousand miles from Hongkong working in a tropical glimate,
hoxe, an initial salary of £220 only.
Your Petitioners wish particularly to draw attention to the great difference betwess the slight increase granted to them, and the enormous increase granted to the Police: mounting in -- the case of Sub-Inspectors of Polise to 60%.
19. Hitherto your Petitioners par was 210 better than that of the Crowa Sergents (now Sub-Inspectors) and your Petitioners see no remson why they as skilled and trained technical, men should be at such a disadvantage,
The following is a comparative table
Overa eska,
„olasa #320 to 2300
Sub-ins; estors £320 to £360
let Cisna 232Ŭ to £360
Inspectors £400 to £450
Inspector.
21. In addition the Police have the great advantages of free fumiture, fuel, light and uniform and retirement on full pension
Your Fetitioners therefore hazably submit that the new senle should be withdraw and a seale on the following lines substitute
(1) That Fiestricians, Road Surveyors, Drainage, Sur- vayors, Clerks of Fork and Overseers be plased on an
equal footing.
(2) That a kinimum salary of 2360 (and free quarters) rising after the first 3 yanan bự annual increments of £30 to a Maximum of 2600, be fixed.
(5), Under this system ai officer will attaią a salary ef 2400 in five years, 8500 in ten years and his maxi-
m af 4600 in fiftem YOSES.
(4) A man may, under this system, join the service at thirty five years of age and still rough his maximum
of 2500 before retirement.
NOTE:- The new maximam of a first class Översser and
$288.00 Land Bailiff is £360 loss & = £345.12, 0.
per month. The proposed maximum of 2600 less 47 2576 = $480,00 par month.
AND your petitioners will ever pray.
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Smmens 22/9/20
Mr. Grindle.
Sir H. Lambert.
Sir H. Read.
Sir G. Fiddes.
Col. Amery.
Lord Milner.
I have re. to ack. the receift
receift of
209 your desp. No. dig of the difiy transmitting memorials from the Engineers, Purveyors, Overseers, IT Land Bailife in the 1WD
regard to the surised salariés attached to their affts.
carefully
considered the representations
contained in these memorals
with your refort on them. In
however of the advantages
which the currice gruerally
enjoys from the conversion of
stering rater ofralary into 1th currency
at of the
dollar, with the recent further
concession of a percentage of
salary on a
disting scale when
the dollar declines in exchange
value; of the grant of free passages
• of unfired terms
house rent, (in
who benefit under this scheme);
and of the fact that the Memorialists are almost except from texation,
(whereas officers of similar sending
at home are
taxation), I regret that I am unable
to entertain tese aftens for further
cessions in the arco, now exis
ex ir Jung
I request that you
the Memorialists to be ift.
in this sense
(Bigred) MILNER
(Signed)
Hubbs 240
HONG KONG
RE!! SEP 20
Free passages on first appl or transper.
Maximum salary limit.
Apells to limit being raised to £800, but extuits Laat previous Paper. Mat & we not be unreasonable to hand free porrales
in all cases wespective of valory
Copy and copy alove li CA 5. Fell Her
Jo. Gw Misc.
May 1924 7/833% Jual
Mr Collyr
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the same conditions as Sunken portare pom S.S.
ie? appics of for passages
lint of £ pusne in all
excuding of 800 p.a.
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firee years from date when H. Ko
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this and on 49531 148.
should have
been held up for 21⁄2 months.
Fathers Love
RC SEP 20
GOVERNMENT HOUSE,
HONGKONG. 22nd July, 1920.
My Lord,
I have the honour to acknowledge the receipt
of Your Lordship's telegram of the 12th July, 1920, on the subject of raising the limitation of salary entitling an officer to receive a free passage on firet appointment or
transfer from £500 to £800 to which I replied on the 15th
July that I agreed to the proposal.
I would, however, submit that it would not be unreasonable to grant free passages in all cases irrespect- ive of salary as it is undoubtedly a greet handicap for any officer to have to provide for more than one passage on first appointment and it is likely that an officer appoint- ed to a post with a salary of over £800 a year will be a man with a wife, and perhaps two small children which entails a nurse so that the total cost of passages will be
about £450, which is in excess of what most officers in the Colonial Service can find without considerable difficulty.
I have the honour to be,
My Lord,
Your Lordship's most obedient,
humble servant,
7. E. Statts 7.E.
Governor, &c.
THE RIGHT HONOURABLE
VISCOUNT MILNER, G.C.B.,
trong xong
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Mr. Beckett L
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the hon. to
appease of the grant of free
passages
apportiment of
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Mr. Grindle,
Sir H. Lambert.
Sir H. Read..
Sir G. Fiddes.
Col. Amery.
Lord Milner.
in each case of five persons
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HONGKONG.
GOVERNMENT HOUSE,
26th July, 1920.
With reference to Your Lordship's Circular Despatch of the 18th March, 1920, I have the honour to forward for transmission to the Central Clearing Office returns of claims from this Colony in respect of debts due by German subjects. The Controller of the local Clearing Office reports that there is one further claim to be presented, which is at present under investigation and cannot be completed for some time.
I have the honour to be,
My Lord,
Your Lordship's most obedient, humble servant,
77.8. Stubbs
Governor, &c.
HE RIGHT HONOURABLE
VISCOUNT MILNER, G.C.B.,
X. 2323/6.
4th Umroh,
I am directed by the Controller to transmit her with
the following schedules of Hong Kong Claim contested by the
German Clearing Offies, together with the relative documentE
List Nos. 1/1497, 2/1804, 3/1456 and 4/1526.
List Nos. 1/380 and 13/385.
I have the honour to be,
Your obedient Servant.
Controller,
Clearing office (Enemy Debts}
Hera King
The Balantal
Secretary.
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8th March,
I am directed by the Controller to inform you that a
request has been received from the German Clearing office
for a speedy settlement of the claim by Alex Detling and Company against the shina Traders' Insurance Company for
#32443.92. List No. 30 Serial No. 93.
The Controller will be glad if this matter can receive
early attention.
Ine Controller,
Clearing ofrios (Enemy Debts)
Hong Kong.
k.f.s, The Colonial Office.
I have the honour to be,
Your obedient Servant.
Secretary.
in dada por mobil od sadlondmoŭ náið æð interrifi
sofia vitannið um 12 við mon) balooox send and Jasuper
PALLIJO, TAle nintada att to Jeandding viewqa a uni
12 brug od like nøl£m"nað sef)
jodi að numsed mild wymi I
X. 2323/6.
podded pranï) kol120 gabuse.
•gasť zaof
7th March,
I am directed by the Controller to transmit berewith
copy in duplicate of the following schedule of Hong Kong claims contested by the German clearing Off ce, together
with the relative documents:m
List No. 3/303.
I have the honour to be,
Your obedient Servant.
The Controller,
Clearing Office(Enery Debts)
Hong Kong
u.f.s. The Colonial office.
Secretary,
priorem dey
1. 2323/5.
10th arch,
dalveran JIAMINIS OF tollonāmā adð yď hudba:16 sa I
anoi plod te slubecios geivello) udo te ndxoliqub ni "groo
koriðugać zes his gemoeda næmeð nið gề had undooo mirIO
− 1 MÅNT+AHLRob ovijalog edd sila
I am directed by the Controller to transmit
coples in duplicate of the following schedules of
Hong Kong Claims contested by the German Clearing
office together with the relativa documents.
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List So. 5/1547
I have the honour to be,
Your obedient Servant,
The Controller,
clearing Office (knexy lebta),
Hoif Kodi.
u.f.e. The Colonial offies.
Soerotary.
X, 2525/3.
I am dirootod by the Controller to transmit here-
with sony in mplicate of the following schedule of
Ceylon Claims admitted by the German Glearing office.
List Nu. 1/1963 for Rs. 57,98
I have the honour to be,
Your obedient Servant,
Controlle
Clearing office (änamy Debts),
Hong Long,
.5. The Colonial office.
Secretary.
No. /32 CONTAL OF
HONG KONG
REC' ¿ JUL 20
Increase of salaries of subordinate
Hake that articans wages
dave been increases Referents permission to adjust pay of subordinate offices accordingly.
Last previous Paper by 321⁄2 our 1914 rodes.
Am Tel. Conson. 30 July
Copy corres.
Admy 11. Aug. 20.4 WS.O nang 1/6!
Next subsequent Paper.
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There is
I understand
dial of discontent with 151-
sections
the subord sure, who
have found themselves bit
of allowances.
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affroved. Refort by want allirations and
& Print 17302 listy.
(24089-41) WL: 20689–35 60,000 £19, H. St. G. 122/ 41.
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TELEGRAM from the Governor of Hong Kong to the Secretary of State for the Colonies.
Dated 27th July
(Received Colonial Office 2.45 a. 28th July,
REC JUL 201
Under terms of settlement of recent strike of artisans all employers including Goverment have increased artisans wages by 32% over 1914 rate. I would be glad if I may be permitted to adjust pay of subordinate officers generally up to this limit without specific reference.
F. & S. Lid
CIRCUIT.
Tel. Address :-" SIGNALLY, AVE,'' LONDON. Telephone:-3632 LONDON WALL (4 Linas)
TELEGRAM
ISSUES PRO CATER CABLE STATION, ELECTRA HOUSE, FINSBURY PAVEMENT.
REPLIES SHOULD BE ORDERED
Via Eastern,
Doubtful words should be OFFICIALLY repeated. See Rule Book. No inquiry respecting this Telona
See hack of form for list of 600pany's
Clerk's Name, '
Time Received
ske antended to without production of this Copy.
Loodon and Telephone Numbers.
ELECTRA JUL 28
Călarenga burzu 8/17a.
ORIGINAL TIME IN LETTERS UNF THE CLOCK
Outer Circle
Inner Circle PM.
Examples, PW Lans D
(REG 28 JUL 20]
¿ The first line of this Telegram contains the following particulars
in the order named
Number of Message, Offçe of Origin
Number of Worda. I
"ock abova), and
XU A1 17
HONG KONG
Under terms of
CHAPELRIES LN
BUS DEAN
SETTLEMENT
INCLUDING
GOVERNMENT
ARTI SAN S
have increased INARARETI8
EMPLOYERS
ARTI SAN S
VONEVAL WERKMADE
AKMADE OVER 1914
would tu glad if GENOPLE STd
may be permitted to
PASAYADE ADJU ST
RATE VIRGOD
I subordinate office's
THEORTO-AL ONTPAREN GENERALLY
WITHOUT SPEC IF 10
REFERENCE
115, Cannos Btreet, 2014
851 ÁVANIA.
652 Avenue.
4406 Avenue,
2610 Burrard
1014 Holborn
2912 Hop.
9. Leadenhall Street, E.C.S
: Markai Buildings,
120, Mincing Lane, 26, Mark Lane, E.Ç. 3
"The Baltio," Bary at. Entranco, E.0.3
41 & 42, Parliament Street, B.W. 1
57, Holborn Viaduct, EG.!
4. Denman Street, Borough, S.E. 1
TEMPORARY ARRANGEMENT.
Telegrams Via Eastern APO Recapted at the Central Station of the Indo-European Telegraph Company, Ld., 18, Old Broad Streef. E.0.2
8765 Central.
707 Bradford
4418 Bristol
286 Cardia.
2340 Danise.
7776 Central
7762) Central.
1764 Demiral
8121 Central
8803 City!
(3 Lines
783 Central
PROVINCIAL STATIONS:
BIRMINGHAM-128, Colmere Row BRADFORD: Commercial Stroet BRISTOL:-*, Small Street CARDIFF:-
33, Marchants' Exchange, Bute Docks DUNDEE: -60, Ball Street
EDINBURGE-3, Frederick Street
GLASGOW :-5. Royal Bank Place
BULL:- Exchange Buildings, Lowgato LIVERPOOL :-E 18, Exchange Buildinga
The Cotton Exchange
MANCHESTER: 5, Spring Gardeur
KEWCASTLE-ON-TYNE:
K. Exchange Buildings, Quayside PORTHCURNOW, CORNWALL
3., 10 p.m.
a.m. to 8 p.m.
10 am 7 pm,
ALWAYS OPEN.
Upon in, to 8 pm.
Lam. 10 7 12 14 he
6. LO $ p.m.
Open 9 am to 7 pm,
to 6 p..
Sunday 9 to 10a.m.
8am to 8p.10.
9am to 7p.m.
*.mco & p.m.
to 6 p.m.
Bam, co † piků.
to 5 p.m.
Įsium, to † p.m.
† to 10 p.m.
ga.m. to 7 pm
.. to 11 p.m.
8.38 km. 1 1.30 pum.
to 9 pm.
§ aum, to 8 pum,
7a.m. toilp.th
to I p..
Tum. to 11 p.m.
Closed Sundays.
Sundays 91010a.m.
7a.m. to li p.m.
19 $ p.m.
9am to 5p.
ALWAYS OPEN.
HEAD OFFICES OF THE COMPANY: ELECTRA HOUSE, FINSBURY PAVEMENT, LONDON, E.C. 2.
Telegraphio Address] EASTERN AVE, LONDON.
Telephone; 1127 LONDON WALL.
To addressed commsting of a name prefixed to REGISTERED ABBREVIATED ADDRESS, where a alegram is addressed to one porsult at the house of another whose name is als given, the word "CARE" (54) or some equivalem exprosalons minişi inserted after the name of the addrese.
Time saved and greater accuracy is secured by the Public banding in their Telegrams dract to the Company's Stations as above, where receipts are given gratis for the amount charged.
Telegrams for this Company's cables are also received at all Postal Telegraph Offices, but should be marked "VIA EASTERN." This indicatis is not charged "Inc.
TELEGRAPHIO ADDRESSES REGISTERED FREE OF COST.
Book of Telegraph. Farma, Tariffs, Rules, he.. can be obtained at the Head Offers of the Company, or at any of the above-named. Stations.
HONG KONG
REG 12 CT 20
Last previous Paper.
Chuia (Companies) Amend! Quib, 1919.
corses with Her Minister of Pakin respf- I inquiring as to exestions of hardship & damage legitimate interest
in the case of
case of los affected.
Copy & last euch. ¥.0.26 Oct Spa
at eubsequent Paper.
See also 47862
The Collins
We have had all this before, except ther
inclosum, which is for & Stutts uple of 27 July
to the harvesters litter of 14 fane cc, 20 sundinn, hom the above-mentioned documents which wo
received cofpes of from 7.0. (44009)
Those documents, cof the Wilkums meant
constituti rl, to fix & Stabbilyar livro
hes de sfs of 22 Aprot to the traieste, (cope of this also with 414009 &- and $19
&table mulf sunt us
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Sir E Stubba is ud satis fuct with thi
Wilkinsons antwer
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(23) (68404) W1. 14188 24 Gp.163 25,000 8.20 W & 8 (W B & L)
an awasting, a cleop. (rom the chass
d'Afforms at laksues, which will
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de ofs of 27 fuels,
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IN China was luck of the fees frand Comfenisti the Colone, for love of
compare (nomess us 14.K. So be as cart tokely to welcome the
Wilkums where, stain that
$10.00 dollars wh? in
go to the Consular Chast
15/10/20
HONGKONG.
Bee 12 OCT 20
GOVERNMENT HOUSE.
27th July, 1920.
My Lord,
In continuation of my despatch No.203 of
the 24th June, 1920, I have the honour to forward for
Your Lordship's consideration copies of further corres-
pondence with His Majesty's Minister at Peking on the subject of the China (Companies) Amendment Order-in-Council
of 1919.
I am causing enquiries to be made on the
question of hardship and damage to legitimate interests and shall report later the results of my enquiries.
I have the honour to be,
My Lord,
Your Lordship's most obedient,
humble servant,
7.&. Stubbe
Governor,&c.
THE RIGHT HONOURABLE
VISCOUNT MILNER, G.C.B.,
No.4386/20.
REC British Legatio120
Peking, 14th June, 1920.
With reference to my despatch of the 27th ultimo, regarding the application of Articles 3 and 4 of the China (Companies) Amendment Order-in-Council, 1919, I have the honour to transmit herewith copy of a despatch from His Majesty's Consul-General at Shanghai covering a report by His Majesty's Crown Advocate, in his capacity as legal adviser on company matters, on the points raised in Your Excellency's despatch of April 22nd last (No.601/1915).
Copies of this correspondence have also been forwarded to the Foreign Office.
I have, etc.
B. ALSTON,
His Excellency
Sir Reginald Stubbs, K.C.M.G.,
Hongkong.
H. M. Minister.
versal ymizma¬
H. B. M. Consulate-General,
Shanghai, 4th June, 1920.
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I have the honour to acknowledge the receipt of your despatch No.96 (3962/20) of the 27th May, forwarding copy of a despatch from the Governor of Hongkong and inviting my observa- tions on the specific points raised by Sir R. Stubbs in regard to the China (Companies) Amendment Order-in-Council, 1919.
On receipt from the Governor on 29th April of copy His Excellency's same despatch I invited His Majesty's Crow Advocate, as legal adviser in company matters, to report on the points raised in that despatch. of Mr. Wilkinson's report I have the honour to forward copy.
His Majesty's Crown Advocate, with whose opinion I am in complete agreement, has dealt so fully with the Governor's contentions that further lengthy argument is not needed.
Sir R. Stubbs does not appear to be aware of the glaring scandal of 'British companies' registered in the Colony but functioning entirely beyond its limits which the Order-in- Council of 1915 was designed to check,
Such companies, which need have neither capital nor directors nor employees British, masqueraded as British on the strength of the payment of fees to the Colony and the exhibition of a name board outside some Hongkong lawyer's office which thus became the registered office required by the Ordinance applicable. The case of the Belgian Industrial Bank of China, Limited, finally proved how the system jeopardised our good name in China without any British Court being able to deal with the aliens constituting in fact a company held out as British to the Chinese.
The proper steps to be taken were discussed very fully not only at the conference to which the Crown Advocate refers,
ir Beilby F. Alston, K.C.M.G., C.B.,
His Majesty's Minister,
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but also in correspondence between His Majesty's Legation and the Foreign Office. At that time it was pointed out that, since the Colonial Government's interest in China companies was (and still is) preponderantly as yielding income, cordial co-operation in our effort to meke such companies genuinely British could
scarcely be looked for.
The Colonial Office steadfastly upheld the Colony in its refusal to part with a source of revenue; and the British author-j ities in China finally accepted the compromise embodied in the Order together with a promise that in case a few years' working showed the control enacted to be ineffectual, the Order should be amended.
Apart from the theoretical objection recorded by the Crown Advocate the proposal to have an independent registry for China companies was rejected partly because of a fear (since proved unfounded), that a large and costly office organization would be essential and partly because English practice permitted, as such cases ea those of the Anglo-Austrian Bank and the Austrian Export and Import Company, Limited, showed, of British companies as completely alien as the Hongkong practice had allowed.
The terms embodied in the 1919 Order were in 1917 dis- cussed with His Majesty's Judge because it was found by experience that the existing control was not in fact adequate. The wording seems to have been misunderstood by many other than Americans. There is no prohibition of the employment of alien experts as technical managers or in any other important position, provided that such alien does not in fact exercise the general or substan- tial control of the company's working usually associated with the office of managing director. I venture to suggest that this fact provides such relief as is essential to the British-American Tobacco Company while securing adequate control for our authori-
The enactment as to the seat of the directorate not
being in itself sufficient to withdraw a company from the provi-
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sions as to China companies seems to me most desirable in view
of the fact that Hongkong-China companies need not have even one
British director and may have alien managing directors. For
instance, the Wing On (China) Company, Limited, has resident here
the two officers who alone can affix the Company's seal which is
kept here: it is hard to suppose any better proof of substantial
control over such a company.
The amended Order-in-Council was no sooner promulgated
than attempts were made to evade it. 'Holding companies' were
ruled out by His Majesty's Supreme Court in a recent case: subsidiary companies equallyrequire scrutiny. Genuine branches
of Hongkong-China companies are of course not affected any more
than genuine colonial companies, since ex hypothesi in neither
case do persons resident within the limits of the Order exercise
general or substantial control over them.
The driving of certain companies off our register and
of certain vessels to fly other flags is in view of recent ship-
ping incidents on the Upper Yangtse a contingency that need not
cause alarm. During the war the difficulty of dealing with such
companies as the "Phranang Steamship Company, Limited, regarding
which the Hongkong Government forwarded correspondence with His
Majesty's Consul at Hoihow towards the end of 1914 and enquired
our position, casts doubt, I venture to think, on the desirabili-
ty of encouraging aliens to take advantage of our laxity in con-
trolling the use of our flag.
It has been argued that a broad policy of giving the
British name to concerns mainly alien affords a valuable adver-
tisement as well as large revenue and political prestige. But
nowadays the Chinese are not impressed by such pretension and
resent the cloaking of native concerns under a foreign flag; and, so far as I am aware, no department of His Majesty's Government has ever approved such a deceptive policy.
The Kwangtung Tramways Company, Limited, appears on
the list at this office as a Hongkong-China company to which the
elect Spor se ed ammen vsi vaqt oo said of so enois
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new Order does not apply.
The Hoong On Steamship Company was wound up last year:
the steamers under its alleged ownership had been moved from the Shanghai to the Hongkong register some years ago.
As to the discrimination asserted in the 14th paragraph of His Excellency the Governor's despatch, I submit that that
discrimination is between China companies and all others and that the Colony is concerned solely because the Hongkong Government still draws the revenue derived from China companies over which it neither exercises any territorial control nor can afford any effective protection.
I have, etc.
E. H. FRASER,
Consul-General and Registrar
of Companies.
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No.47/20.
Shanghai,
1st June, 1920.
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You have asked me to advise you as to the matters touched on by Sir Reginald Stubbs, the Governor of Hongkong, in
his despatch to H. M. Minister, Peking, of the 22nd April last, and of which His Excellency sent you a copy, in which it is pro- posed that the enforcement of the China (Companies) Amendment Order-in-Council, 1919, may be postponed.
His Excellency's attention does not appear to have been drawn to the colonial records in regard to the former inadequacy of control over companies incorporated in Hongkong but carrying on business outside the Colony, even when genuinely British controlled enterprises, which they very frequently were not: the difficulty which led to the holding of a conference at the Foreign Office in 1913 between the departments concerned.
The effects of the conclusions then arrived at are, for the most part, embodied in the China (Companies) Order-in- Council, 1915, and the Hongkong Companies Ordinance, 1915. It was decided at the conference referred to that steps were to be taken to insure that companies enjoying British protection in China should in future be really British in character, and under effective British jurisdiction.
Sir John Jordan, Sir Havilland de Sausmarez, and you yourself attended the conference as representing British inter- ests in China; and a clear resume of the facts which the confer- ence dealt with is to be found in Sir Havilland's Instructions dated 1st January, 1916, to H. M. Consular Officers in China in regard to the Order-in-Council of 1915 above referred to.
Sir Everard Fraser, K.C.V.G.,
His Majesty's Consul-General,
Shanghai.
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The Judge said:-
"Most British companies carrying on business in Chine, otherwise than by agents, are incorporated in Hongkong, and, strictly speaking, should have been managed there, but the exigencies of trade compelled, the Government to wink at the fact that the manage- ment in the Colony was only nominal, whilst the real seat of the company was in China. Such an abnormal state of things was sure to lead to abuse, and the ease with which under Company law, whether that of the United Kingdom or Hongkong, companies can be registered, soon led to the formation of companies, I which were British only in name, or at least had very large foreign interests, whilst an appreciable number of them were none too respectable.It thus became necessary to assist British enterprise by removing doubts and difficulties from the position of existing bone fide British companies and to ensure that the facilities offered by Hongkong were not abused by foreigners, including Chinese, who by incorporating themselves as a British company with- drew themselves from their own country's jurisdic- tion without becoming substantially amenable to that of the British courts."
The Companies Order-in-Council and Ordinance of 1915.
were not final in that a further tightening of effective control
over 'China' Companies was contemplated in such ways as further
experience should indicate as necessary and advisable.
As the result of such experience the China Companies (Amendment) Order-in-Council, 1919, was made on the 9th October,
1919, and came into force on the 1st of January last.
It was assumed, I understand, at the Conference in
1913, and I know has been accepted by the Foreign Office as a
convenient legal hypothesis, that a British corporation cannot
be created elsewhers than on British Territory. When discussing
that question once with Sir W. H. Davidson, K.C., then Senior
Legal Adviser to the Foreign Office, he pointed out to me the
practical difficulties which would then have arisen, in Zanzibar,
for instance, had we acted on the hypothesis, as the Germans
wished to there, and as they did in China, that included in extraterritorial rights was the right of a Power enjoying them to include in the persons entitled to its protection a "persona", a
company, created in a country wherein extraterritorial rights
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in accordance with special provisions made theressto.
then urging the advisability of providing for the creation of
British 'China' companies by the establishment of a separate
Companies Registry at Shanghai independent of Hongkong or any
other British Colony.
The decision of the Inter-departmental Conference of
1913 was in the nature of a compromise. The Colonial Authori-
ties could not afford to lose the revenue derived from the incor-
poration and registration of companies, and it was arranged, as
provided in Article 17 of the China (Companies) Order-in-Council.
1915, that:-
"All fees prescribed by or under the Ordinance '(Hong
Kong Companies Ordinance 1911 or any amendment of asme)' or by or under the Life Insurance Ordinance which are paid to the Registrar of Companies at
Shanghai shall be paid by him to the Colonial
Treasurer at Hongkong.
As there can, I think, be no serious question now of a
reversion to the situation prior to the making of the China
Companies Order-in-Council, 1915, as to jurisdiction over 'China'
Companies, I need only say further in regard to paragraphs 1-6
of His Excellency's despatch, under consideration, that it is
only the possibility of prosecution in a local court having
jurisdiction over company officials for their own acts done within its jurisdiction which can keep such officials in reason-
able check.
British directors in 'China' companies now know, especially since the making of the amending Order-in-Council of
1919, that they may have to personally answer for their acts in
China, and that they cannot plead, as they would have done in the
old days, if ever proceeded against, that they had given their
Managers or General Agents, of whatever nationality, strict
instructions to keep within the law, but that these instructions had without their knowledge, and beyond their control, been
disobeyed.
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in which the Crown Advocate, on the instructions of the Registrar
cis.went felnaen dti sareinosse ei
of Companies at Shanghai, has taken or will have to take legal
action in Court: our effective control, however, over China companies is, I am glad to say, daily growing stronger.
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Paragraphs 7 to 12 of Sir Reginald Stubbs' despatch
deal with companies carrying on business in Hongkong and also in
China, such companies are, by the China (Companies) Order-in-
Council 1915, and by the corresponding Hongkong Companies Ordin-;
ance 1915 called "Hongkong China Companies" and therein specially provided for. The Chine (Companies) Amendment Order-in-Council, 1919, the operation of which His Excellency wishes to postpone, does not apply to Hongkong China Companies, save in so far as the new definition of China Company in Article 3 of the Order-in-
Council of 1919 has now classed as 'China Companies' such of them
as are substantially controlled by persons ordinarily resident in
'Hongkong China. Companies' were by the China (Companies) Order-in-Council, 1915, and also by the Hongkong
Companies Ordinance, 1915, defined as follows:-
'Hongkong China Company' means a company incorporat- ed under the Ordinance*(of 1911 and any amendment
thereof)"which carries on some part of its business within the limits of this Order" (the China (Companies)
Order-in-Council 1915) "and the operations of which
are directed and controlled from some place in Hong
A 'China Company' was defined by the China (Companies) Order-in-Council, 1915, and also by the Hongkong Companies
Ordinance 1915 as follows:-
"China. Company means a company limited by shares or by
guarantee incorporated under the Ordinance" (The Hongkong Companies Ordinance 1911, and any amendment thereof and the operations of which are directed and controlled from some place within the limits of the Order" - (the China (Companies) Order-in-Council, 1919),
The China (Companies) Amendment Order-in-Council, 1919,
made after the necessity for further and better control of China
Companies had been proved by experience, more strictly defined the
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In paragraph 9 of Fis Excellency's despatch he deplores
the facts that, as he understands, "no means is provided by which
China companies can obtain a judicial decision as to their statusi
in a matter which must often be a difficult question of fact", I
understand from the whole of the despatch under consideration that
His Excellency considers that the judicial decision of any ques-
tion affecting companies incorporated under the Hongkong Com-
panies Ordinance including 'China Companies' should be obtainable
in the Supreme Court of Hongkong. Even if the matter of the most
convenient tribunal for the decision of questions affecting the
status, and liabilities, of a China Company were under consider-
ation for the first time it would, surely, be considered that on
questions of fact such as whether, or no, the substantiel control
of the business of a company is exercised by a person or persons
ordinarily resident in Chine, the Court best able to deal effect-
ively with the matter would be H.M.Supreme Court for China.
As to companies already on the Shanghai Register I foresee no great difficulty in enforcing the provisions of
Article 4 of the China (Companies) Order-in-Council 1919 which provides that:
"No person, other than a British subject resident
within the limits of this Order, shall act as managing director or in any position similar to that of managing director or shall otherwise exer- cise general or substantial control of the business of a China Company".
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ance with Article 3 of the new Order-in-Council have now become
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March last with special reference to the Wing On (Shanghai)
Limited, which on the facts stated in previous correspondence he
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unfortunately the Hongkong Companies Ordinances had not yet been brought into accord with the China (Companies) Amendment Order-in
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take steps to comply therewith.
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ty, referred to by the Registrar at Hongkong in his despatch of
the 8th of March, above referred to, of the Supreme Court of Hongkong holding that a company, which the Court here had on the
Order-in-Council of 1919 held to be a China Company, was, in
accordance with the definition of the Ordinance of 1915, not a
China Company, would be obviated.
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carrying on business in Hongkong or elsewhere, will be a 'China Company'. As provision had already been made in the Hongkong
Companies Ordinance of 1915 for judicial decisions to the status of 'Hongkong China' and of 'China' Companies, it was not necessary' to deal with this matter in the Chine (Companies) Amendment Order-
in-Council, 1919.
Section 4 of the Hongkong Companies Ordinance, 1915, provides for the transfer of companies from one Register to
another.
Sub-section 1 (a & b) and Sub-section 2(a) deal with
the transfers made on the Ordinance, and the Order-in-Council of
1915, coming into force, and as to notices given to the respective Registrars as to the place whence the operations of companies were carried on.
Sub-section 2 (b, c, & d) deals with the sending of such notices as to place of direction in the case of companies incorporated after the coming into force of the Ordinance, and as to change of place of direction of existing companies, and as to penalties incurred on failure to send such notices.
Sub-section 3 (a & b) of Section 4 provides for deter- mination by the Registrar in whose register a company then stands, on receipt of a notice of change in the place from which either a 'Hongkong China Company' or a 'China Company' directs its opera- tions of the question whether such company shall be transferred to the Shanghai, or to the Hongkong Register, as the facts proved may require.
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enforcement of judicial orders made by the respective Courts.
In paragraph 10 of His Excellency's despetch, under consideration, he refers to the Wing On Company (Shanghai) Limited as to which it is said "such a compeny may be a subsidiary com- pany belonging to a bona fide Hongkong enterprise, and the terri- torial control here may be satisfactory".
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The Order-in-Council of 1915 and the amending Order- in-Council of 1919 were made because it had not been found that the limited territorial jurisdiction of Hongkong was 'quite
satisfactory'.
Paragraphs 11, 12, 14 and 15 of Sir Reginald Stubbs' despatch deal with the political question as to whether it would not be in the interests of British prestige to allow of companies being incorporated as British which are not euch in fact: a chose jugée, I think, as regards British companies in China especially
shipowning companies.
Paragraph 13 of His Excellency's despatch mentione the British American Tobacco Co. (Chine) Ltd. as a Chine Company, partly British in character, who find it difficult, if not impos- sible, to displace or replace their American Manager. When this Company appealed to H. M. Minister at Peking on the 11th of February last, in view of the difficulty which they had in comply-i ing with Article 4 of the new Order-in-Council of 1919, for exemption from the provisions of the new Order-in-Council by way, as it was suggested, of licence authorising the employment of s non-British Manager, it was suggested that the company should appeal to H. M. Government for the making of a supplementary Order-in-Council, authorising the issue by H. M. Minister of licences to employ non-British Managers of Chine Companies, in
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cases where real hardship or practical disabilities would ensue
from the strict enforcement of the new amending Order-in-Council
of 1919.
On the 12th March last you were informed by the Company here that the Directors of the British American Tobacco Co.,Ltd.,
London, had made representations to the Colonial Office as to the difficult position in which this company and ite subsidiary com- panies in China were placed by the new Order-in-Council.
On the 10th of March the Governor of Hongkong had tele-
graphed to you asking you to await a letter "before anything is
done against Hongkong China Companies" under the new Order-in-
Council of 1919.
No legal action had then, or has since, been taken bere
to enforce the provisions of the new Order-in-Council; such being so far unnecessary.
On March 26th Mr. Lampson, H.M.Chargé d'Affaires et Peking, wrote a despatch with reference to the appeal of the Com- pany to Sir John Jordan, as already referred to, and asking for
your opinion, and that of the Crown Advocate, and also that of Mr.
Fox, H.M.Commercial Counsellor as to the probable effect of the granting of licences such as had been suggested. A copy of my opinion as given in a despatch to yourself No.34 of the 21st April is hereto attached for reference, and for the information of His Excellency the Governor of Hongkong. When that opinion was written it was understood here that, in view of the grave difficulties which the British American Tobacco Company (China) Ltd. would have in providing for the substantial control of their interests in China being exercised by British subjects ordinarily resident in Chine, the Company were arranging for the real control of the Com- pany's activities in China being exercised in future from Hongkong,
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12th April last.
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appointed Managing Director here of the 'China Company' so as to comply with Article 4(1) of the new Order-in-Council of 1919,
informed you that the Board of the home company found difficulty in agreeing with the suggestion to transfer the control of the
Company's interests in the East to Hongkong.
After consultation with myself, you told Sir Arthur
Churchmen that, as you considered the granting of exempting
licences would in fact invalidate the Order-in-Council of 1919,
you personally would prefer that if any change in the interests
of the British American Tobacco Co.Ltd. were made, it should be by
way of an Order-in-Council frankly exempting that Company from
the restrictions of the 1919 Order.
Even if the proposed transfer of control to Hongkong, and of the Company to the Hongkong Register, cannot be arranged,
the reasons which have led me to advise against the giving of a
power to H.M.Minister to grant licences of exemption from the
provisions of Articles 3 and 4 of the new Order-in-Council of
1919 hold good and may be re-stated as follows:-
The transfer of all China Companies heretofore
under non-British control to British control has been
practically completed (the only outstanding case of
any importance being that of the British American
Tobacco Co.,Ltd.).
If licences allowing non-British management of
Chine Companies were under any circumstances obtain-.
able, a most invidious and difficult task would be set
H.M.Minister, and the Registrar and also the Crown
Advocate as his technical adviser in such matters.
If such licences were obtainable, the force and
effect of salutary provisions, the need of which has
been felt for years, would be seriously weakened.
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If any such licences were granted, good ground of complaint would be given to those
Americans and Japanese who had heretofore con- trolled 'China Companies' and who have complied
with the Order-in-Council and renounced the
management of such companies.
The interest of the Hongkong Government in companies incorporated under the Hongkong Companies Ordinance but carrying. on business outside the Colony was prior to 1915 and is now confined to the revenue derived from fees payable by such com- panies. The amount remitted by the Shanghai Registry to the Colonial Treasurer for the last financial year ending December 15th 1919, in accordance with Article 17 of the China Companies Order-in-Council 1915, was Dollars Ninety-two thousand eight hundred and seven and eighty-three cents Shanghai currency (892,807.83). The revised contribution paid by the Government of Hongkong towards the upkeep of the Shanghai Registry of Companies by recent arrangement is now in Hongkong Dollars Three thousand; which, as last paid, amounted through the greater exchange value of the Shanghai dollar than of the Hongkong dollar to 82,400 only.
In the course of the correspondence which took place in 1919 with reference to the amount to be remitted to Hongkong from the Shanghai Registry, ad the allowance to be made for that Regis- try's upkeep, Mr. Claud Severn, the Officer then administering the Goverment of Hongkong, informed H.M.Consul-General here on the 30th of April of that year that the volume of work in the Hongkong Registry was "not considered sufficient to justify the appointment of a special clerk or the setting aside of a special telephone."
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