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COLONIAL SECRETARIAT
LOWER ALBERT ROAD
HONG KONG
5th May, 1970.
Dear Nicholas,
The Governor was pleased to get a copy of your record of the Secretary of State's meetings here on 19 April.
On his copy of the record of the meeting with officials he has marked a number of suggested amendments. None changes the sense in a fundamental way. The nature of these suggestions is indicated by the two changes in paragraph 1. They are as follows:
In the third sentence instead of "Only 2.5% of the schools" it should be "Only 2.5% of the school children".
In the following sentence instead of saying
"There was less communist influence in the press than before 1967" it should be "The estimated readership of the communist newspapers was slightly less than before 1967."
I imagine you would judge that this type of minor correction is not important enough to make it necessary for us to send you the full list of changes which we would have made if we had been making the record.
May I add that the records are indeed noble efforts considering that you had had no previous experience of Hong Kong and our unique problems.
RECEIVED IN
your
ever,
Arthur.
REGISTRY No.51
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HKLI 22/4
N.J.Barrington, Esq., Private Secretary to Secretary of State
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for Foreign & Commonwealth Affairs.
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