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SECURITY CLASSIFICATION
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Confidential
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Unclassified.
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PERSONAL GOVERNOR telegram No PERSONAL........
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GOVERNOR HONG KONG......
HONG KONG
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Hd HKIOD
Hd Gib & Gen
Mr Larmour
Mr Wilford Sir D Watson
Copies to:-
Mr Fifoot Mr Rushford
Legal Advis
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Personal for Governor from Watson.
MIPT: APPOINTMENT OF COLONIAL SECRETARY
1.
Paragraph 2 below contains the draft of a letter of appointment which you should issue to Denys Roberts immediately.
2.
"I am directed by the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs to offer you appointment as Colonial Secretary, Hong Kong. The terms and conditions are as prescribed from time to time. You would be expected to take up the appointment with effect from 1 January 1974.
Your acceptance of this appointment would not preclude you from consideration for appoint- ment as Chief Justice Hong Kong when that post next falls vacant, though you should appreciate
/that the
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