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SECURITY CLASSIFICATION
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Confidential.
To:-
Mr P AL Vine
304 Chartered Bank Building HONG KONG
Type 1 +
FROM
MR ROYLE Telephone No. Ext.
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PRIVACY MARKING
In Confidence
expresmining
The Juicin the Peace
и разветви
how
Department
You wrote to me white was in Hong Kong last month
about the composition of the Hong Kong Legislative
Council.
As you know
As I understand from the Governor that the sitting
has agreed
period member is willing to continue to serve for a further
how been and to tell However, u
your
is ne vacancy
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the Governors proposal not to continue with the
prachi
and th. Generd Chabang m convention of calling for nominations from JPS
has the support of the Secretary of State. While
he and realises the fine contribution that memberg
in these seats have made over the year thiEE
machin
am was
not in any way embodied in the consitution of
Hong Kong.
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the Sscuela's
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machi
Since the custom has now become
somewhat anachronistic, we support the Governor's
proposal to discontinue it.
There would seem to be no danger of the views of
JPS being underrepresented in the Legislative
Council: as at present consi tuted all the unofficial
members of both Executive and Legislative Councils
are JPs.