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I greatly regret that these papers have been over- looked in the pressure of work over the last eight to ten weeks. The fault is entirely mine.
2. In his letter at (11), the Governor forwards his proposals for filling places of four Unofficial Members and eight Official Members of the Legislative Council
It is whose terms of office will expire on 30 June. usual for Ministers to approve the Governor's proposals in the case of Unofficials. The Officials follow a more or less agreed pattern of nomination of holders of certain offices (Heads of the P.W.D., Medical, Education, Labour, Social Welfare and Commerce and Industry plus the Commissioner of the New Territories and the Chairman of the Urban Council), and we do not submit to Ministers unless the Governor proposes a change in the offices represented on the Council. No such changes are involved here.
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The Governor recommends the reappoinment of four out- going Unofficials for a further period of two years. Two of them (Wong, an industrialist, and Szeto, an archi- tect) have served for only one term of two years. (Ross) is the nominee of the General Chamber of Commerce; we decided last year that the right of the Justices of the Peace and of the Chamber of Commerce each to nominate a member should be left alone for the time being see paragraphs 19 23 of the letter at (5) on FED.36/400/01 attached and our reply at (6) on those
That leaves F.S. Li (a businessman) whom the
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please
/Minister