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COMMONWEALTH
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Delegation to the British Solomon Islands,
Gilbert and Ellice Islands, New Hebrides and Hong Kong
I enclose the delegates' biographical details.
At the briefing meeting on 22nd July, it was agreed that the following briefs would be provided by Mr. J.W. Moffatt, of your Pacific and Indian Ocean section, in respect of the B.S.I. and N.H.
(a)
(b)
Constitutional proposals for the B.S.I. - a recent publication.
The Legislative Council normally meets twice a year; it may be meeting to discuss these constitutional proposals during this delegation's visit, and Mr. Moffatt was going to check this.
Extracts as necessary from the B.S.I.P. Annual Report for 1968 to give the delegates summarized background information, including education and forestry.
(c) Bibliography for the B.S.I.P.
(a)
Copies of the new C.0.1. Fact Sheet on the New Hebrides if it is reprinted in time.
(e) Background information on the South Pacific Commission. (f) Background information on any problems which may be
raised with the delegates during their stay in B.S.I.P. and N.H.
(g) Names and notes on leading political and other
personalities whom the delegation might expect to meet in B.S.I.P. and N.H., and including the South Pacific Commission.
3.
Similar briefs to (f) and (g) above were asked for by the delegates in respect of the Gilbert and Ellice Islands. This was after Mr. F.H. Brown, who had dealt with this particular part of the briefing, had left. Mr. Moffatt was asked to let Mr. Brown know, but a word from you to Mr. Brown would also help.
4. I informed the delegates about the position regarding he Hong Kong paiet - the briefing, viz., that there were only two persons in the Hong Kong section, one was ill and the other not available that morning owing to a previous commitment, but that the Head of the section, Mr. W.S. Carter,
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