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From
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M.D.I. Gass, Esq., C.M.G.,
Colonial Secretary,
Hong Kong.
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In our telegram No.1342 we mentioned that
Gerald de Basto, Chairman of the Hong Kong Bar
Association, would be seeing Lord Shepherd on the
9 August to raise certain matters on behalf of his
Association. The meeting took place as planned and
I enclose for your information a copy of a note of the
discussions. We had hoped that it would be possible
for Denys Roberts to attend the meeting, but in the
event this was not practicable. He did, however, have
a preliminary discussion with Sidames McPetrie on
maltes
the subjects that we knew de Basto intended to raise.
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Most of the matters raised had been the subject of
representations by the Association on previous occasions
(see the Secretary of State's savingram No.1564 of
B.
17 August, 1965) and de Basto, who was not accompanied
by any other members of the Bar Association made it
clear that so far as he was concerned, by far the most
important item that he wanted to raise was that
concerning appointments to the Supreme Court Bench
from
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the Hong Kong Bar. The considerations which obtained
when this matter was discussed in 1964 still held good.
At this latest discussion on the subject, no undertaking
m velation to
was given that such appointments would be made but
the Minister did agree that the idea should be further
examined. It has occurred to us that Creedon's
death
unfortunate decease may present an opportunity for
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