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CONFIDENTIAL
BRIEF
For Lord Shepherd
for a meeting with Mr. Hilton Cheong-Leen
at 4.00 p.m. on Wednesday 19 February.
(A biographical Note on Mr. Cheong-Leen
has already been provided)
It is thought that amongst the matters which Mr. Cheong-Leen
may raise with the Minister, the following may well figure:
(a) the question of expanding the scope of the Urban
Council to give it wider powers including responsibility
for primary education facilities, social welfare services
and other municipal services, together with the attendant
financial responsibility;
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(b)
the question of the appointment to the Legislative
Council of a number of elected members of the Urban Council;
(c) the question of terminating the operation of emergency
regulations, with particular reference to Regulation No. 32
which confers the power of detention without trial.
As regards (a), the Minister will be aware that the whole
question of local government in Hong Kong has been the subject of
prolonged study in the Colony: this study has, however, been
delayed by the disturbances which occurred during the last eight
months of 1967. There have been three Reports on the matter;
the first was a Report by an ad hoc Committee of unofficial
members of the Urban Council in October, 1966; the second was the
Report of an official working party which was published early in
1967. There has since been a further (unpublished) Report by a
Secretariat officer (Mr. W. V. Dickinson). This Report was
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