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Sir Michael Gass,
KCMG,
Colonial Secretary, Hong Kong.
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Mr. Carter
Telephone No. & Ext.
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We have learned (through the Ministry
of Overseas Development) of the existence.
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of a draft Report by Dickinson on
"the feasibility of improving the existing
machinery of local government in Hong Kong,
as an interim measure pending wider reform".
We have, of course, known for a considerable
time that the report of the official working
party on local government, published in 1967, has been under extensive discussion in Hong
Kong but we have not recently received any
official indication of the stage reached by
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the Hong Kong authorities in their, considera-
tions of the matter.
We have received the impression from
newspaper comment recent summaries of the Hong Kong Press,
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that pressure may be mounting for a review
of the functions and powers of the Urban
Council.
There is, in fact, some indication
that the matter may be raised in Parliament
here, in the not too distant future. It
would help us, therefore, if you could let us
know how matters are developing in the sphere
of local government; and indeed if Dickinson's further
draft report is in a form likely to receive
official support, we should appreciate it if
we could be sent a copy.