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SENIOR APPOINTMENTS, HONG KONG
PROBLEM
1.
We have to appoint a replacement for the present Colonial
Secretary, Sir Hugh Norman-Walker, who is due to retire at the
end of December 1973.
2.
Because the leading candidate for this post has already
been approved by The Queen for appointment as Chief Justice,
Hong Kong, we have also to reconsider the question of a
successor to the Chief Justice, Sir Ivo Rigby.
BACKGROUND AND ARGUMENT
3.
In November 1972 The Queen approved the appointment of
Mr Denys Roberts, the present Attorney General, Hong Kong as
Chief Justice when the present holder of that office retires
in May this year.
4.
Subsequently, however, Sir Murray MacLehose proposed
that Mr Roberts should, instead, be appointed as Colonial
Secretary to succeed Sir Hugh Norman-Walker.
set out in his telegrams Now 10 and 11.
His reasons are
5. At its meeting on 6 February the Dependent Territories
Senior Appointments Board considered five candidates for the
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