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P.U.S. Approved this
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MR. ROYLE'S PRIVATE CONVERSATION WITH THE GOVERNOR ON 11 OCTOBER 1970
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I spoke privately to the Governor while I
was in Hong Kong about his reply of 17 September. to your letter of 3. August. touring programmus
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th indicated that you could not leave matters as the Governor's letter had left them... Thequently
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new Government recognised how much had been
done up to date: we did not necessarily want
a. radical acceleration but we did want the
momentum to be maintained and be seen to be
perconal
maintained This would help the F.C.o. to
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help Hong Kong; be ande available to you.
3. After discussion
recent was reached on
the following lines as regards the three subjects
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covered in the Governor's correspondence with
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you, the problem again to the Board, for reconsideratio
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Primary Education. 9 and a further study of the ph The Governor pointed out that his present
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proposals could be presented as compulsory primary
education in terms of Hong Kong conditions and
that, this being so he agreed that there was every 34
advantage in public relations terms of representing
them in a positive way to be precisely this.
intended to do this in future in fact he did so
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present the proposals in his address to the
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Legislative Council on 1 October,tinatud)
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