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Record of a Meeting between the Foreign and Commonwealth Secretary and the Governor of Hong Kong in Government House at 10.00 a.m. on Sunday,¡9 April.
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The Rt. Hon.
Present
Michael Stewart, M.P.
Sir Denis Greenhill
Mr. J. Wellbeloved, M.P.
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Mr. James Murray
Mr. J.A.N. Graham
Miss E. Booker
Mr. N.J. Barrington
H.E. Sir David Trench Lager-General
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Sir Basil Eugster (Cdr. inf
British Forces)
Sir Hugh Norman-Walker
(Colonial Secretary)
Mr.T.E.Roberts (Attorney-Gen:)
Mr...Holmes (Home Secretaryľ
for Home Affairs)
Sir John Cowperthwaite (Finance Secretary)
"Mr.C·PSutcliffe (Commissioner
of Police)
Mr. A. Todd (Defence Secretary)
BR.A.F.
Mr. A.Maddocks (Political
Adviser)
Local Government
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19. Mr. Stewart asked about the problem of Reeping
people interested in local government.
-present
the present lack of interest was, saying that this because the two main sources of intereet
(in the UK.
Was he right in subjects
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in local government, housing and education, were not
matters for local government here? Mr. Holmes said
policy that local government did have influence on the housing
in Hong Kong. The Colony did not have local government district by district; there was an Urban Council covering
the whole area, excluding the New Territories. The
lack of interest in elections was mainly due to the fact
that the election system was not understood in Chinese
society. The Chinese had only had a brief experience of
from 1911 until the period, such a system when the Communists took over: a disasterou
stem/wh
perica, even by Chinese standards.
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