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and businessmen;
Some/detribalised-not
representing the normal attitudes of local
Chinese. He was anxious to disentangle local
government from Government, i.e. remove
official members of councils. The trouble
was the people did not distinguish local
government from Government proper. If some-
thing went wrong they blamed the Government.
Mr. Wellbeloved asked if it was true that the
elected members of the urban council had
recently walked out and if so why. Sir David
Trench said that this was over what reforms
were to be expected and when. But this had
not even been decided by the legislative
Council. Mr. Stewart said this seemed to
show that local government was of some interest to some people. Sir David Trench said that
the increase in functions was of interest to
6 only the elected members of the Council them- selves. Sir Hugh Norman-Walker said that if anyone provided the impetus for/increases in powers of local government it was the
Government itself.
2 Defence
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by Aster Creneved
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Qin Basil Fugster said that there were
no difficulties about defence matters
except in the Air Force field.
A com-
promise had been agreed with the RAF over the number of squadrons situated in Hong Kong. Extra training would be carried out in the Colony. They would not be able to do any- thing if anyone flew over Hong Kong air space. The only real problem was who paid for Hong
The cost might
Kong's defence and how much.
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