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NOTE TO PRESS OFFICERS
FOUR-MAN HONGKONG GOODWILL MISSION TO MEET C.O. MINISTERS
A four-man "goodwill mission" from Hong Kong's Heung Yee Kuk (Rural Consultative Council) will meet the Commonwealth Secretary, Mr. George Thomson, at 10.15 on Wednesday morning, 21. February and shortly afterwards will proceed to Curtis Green to meet the Minister of State for Commonwealth Affairs, Lord Shepherd. The object of the mission which arrived in the U.K. on 19 January has been to bring the Hong Kong Chinese living in Britain first-hand news from home and to reassure them that life in their home towns and villages in the Colony and the New Territories has not been affected by the political disturbances of last summer.
For the information of Press Officers, a photo facility has been arranged for a C.0.I. photographer only..
The delegation consists of Mr. PANG Fu-wah, J.P., Chairman of the Heung Yee Kuk and leader of the delegation; Mr. CHEUNG Yan-lung, M.B.E., J.P., Immediate past chairman of the Heung Yee Kuk; Mr. CHAN Yat-san, J.P., Past chairman of the Heung Yee Kuk, and now chairs the Tuen Mun Rural Committee, Castle Peak; and Mr. TANG Nai-man, Secretary of the Heung Yee Kuk,
News Department,
Commonwealth Office 15 February 1968
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