W(B)L 51-7433
NOTHING TO BE WRITTEN IN THIS MARGIN
Registry
No. HWB 13/34
DRAFT
SECURITY CLASSIFICATION
To:-
Top Seeret.
Secret.
Confidential.
N.A.S. 31/1
Restricted. Unclassified.
PRIVACY MARKING
In Confidence
Philip Moore Esq., C.M.G.,
Buckingham Palace.
Type 1 +
37
From Private Secretary to
the Secretary of State
Telephone No. & Ext.
Department
Mr. Gaminara
Enclosures:
Copies of petitions at 13 and 15 (the
latter with
appendices) Flac
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aldressed
I enclose copies of petitions/to Her
Majesty the Queen from the Reform Club of
from
Hong Kong and Mrs. Elsie Elliott an elected
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Member of the Urban Council of Hong Kong.
Both petitions concern the Public Order
Ordinance 1967 which received the Governor's
assent on 16 November 1967. The petition
from the Reform Club asks that Her Majesty exercise her power of disallowance in respect of this ordinance and Mrs. Elliott's petition
supports that of the Reform Club.
I should shall
be grateful if both petitions could be laid
before Her Majesty.
the
the
of the
The contents of beth petitions have been
carefully considered but do not, in the V Secretary of State, warrant his recommending that the Ordinance be disallowed.
His advice to Her Majesty therefore is that
the reply to both petitions should be that
they have been laid before Her Majesty but
that the Secretary of State was unable to
advise Her Majesty that the petitions should
be granted.
Copies at of. C.
2/11