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CONFIDENTIAL
Foreign and Commonwealth Office
London S.W.1
5 November 1971
Sir Hugh Norman-Walker, KCMG, OBE,
Acting Governor
HONG KONG
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(27)
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My dear Hugh
1.
You now know from the Secretary of State's telegram No 810 that he will not after all be able to accept the Chinese University's invitation to visit Hong Kong on the occasion of the opening of the University's Science Centre. He does, however, hope to be in Hong Kong in February.
2.
In his letter to Denis Greenhill of 29 April David Trench suggested that if the Secretary of State found it impossible to accept the invitation "perhaps a Minister responsible for ODA or educational affairs might be able to come". We have made enquiries to this end, both from the ODA and from the Department of Education and Science, but I am afraid that those concerned cannot fit in a visit to Hong Kong for the time planned much as they would have liked to accept the invitation.
3.
In these circumstances and since Mr Royle in any event plans to be in Hong Kong during April the Secretary of State has asked him to represent him at the ceremony.
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May we take it that a timetable on the lines of that suggested in the last paragraph of your letter to me of
7 June will still be convenient for the University authorities? Mr Royle will of course wish to stay on for a day or two for discussions with Murray MacLehose and yourself and to meet members of UMELCO and others. The details can be worked out later once the date of the visit has been settled.
Your
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Leslie
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