CYPHER/CAT A.
CONFIDENTIAL
PRIORITY FOREIGN AND COMMONWEALTH OFFICE.
EGRAM NUMBER 369
TO. HONG KONG.
29 MAY 1970.
(HONG KONG)
CONFIDENTIAL.
YOUR TELEGRAM NUMBER 349.
15
APPOINTMENTS TO EXECUTIVE AND LEGISLATIVE COUNCILS.
YOUR PARAGRAPH 2. WE AGREE THAT THE PRESENT OFFICIAL MEMBERS OF
LEGISLATIVE COUNCIL SHOULD BE REAPPOINTED FOR ONE YEAR OR FOR SO
LONG AS THEY HOLD THEIR PRESENT OFFICES.
2.
YOUR PARAGRAPHS 3-5. WE AGREE WITH VIEWS EXPRESSED IN PARAGRAPH
3 AND WITH THE PROCEDURE SUGGESTED IN PARAGRAPH 4.
3.
YOUR PARAGRAPH 7. WE AGREE APPOINTMENTS OF UNOFFICIAL MEMBERS
TO EXECUTIVE COUNCIL SHOULD BE FOR ONE YEAR AND WE AWAIT YOUR
RECOMMENDATIONS. WE SEE NO OBJECTION TO ONE OR TWO PLACES BEING LEFT
VACANT FOR A PERIOD.
4.
WE HOPE THAT, IN CONSIDERING THE COMPOSITION OF BOTH COUNCILS,
YOU WILL RE-EXAMINE CAREFULLY THE POSSIBILITY OF WIDENING
REPRESENTATION BY INCLUDING PERSONS FROM FIELDS SUCH AS THE
UNIVERSITIES AND THE TEACHING PROFESSION, INFORMATION MEDIA AND FROM
PROFESSIONAL PEOPLE AND THOSE PROMINENT IN THE SOCIAL SERVICE.
THEY NEED NOT NECESSARILY BE THOSE REGARDED AS THE MOST SENIOR
MEMBERS OF THEIR PARTICULAR FIELD. WE WANT YOU TO FEEL THAT YOU
ARE NOT BOUND TO CONFINE YOUR NOMINATIONS TO THOSE WHO HAVE CLIMBED
THE LADDER OF PROMOTION FROM J.P.
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H.K.D.
P.S. TO P.U.S.
SIR L. MONSON
MR. WILFORD
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