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the representations of the Chairman of the Hong Kong Bar
Association and his associates. These will have to be answered
before the final decision is known. We must therefore avoid
indicating what that decision will be. We have consulted the
Governor of Hong Kong on the form which a reply might take.
RECOMMENDATIONS
a) That the Secretary of State should approve in principle
the appointment of Mr D T E Roberts as Colonial Secretary,
Hong Kong in succession to Sir Hugh Norman-Walker.
b)
That the Private Secretary should write to the Private
Secretary to Her Majesty on the lines of the attached draft.
c) That subject to agreement from the Palace to a change
in the nomination, the Secretary of State should agree to
recommend the appointment of Mr Justice Briggs as Chief
Justice of Hong Kong to succeed Sir Ivo Rigby. A separate
submission on this will be put up when the lines are cleared
with the Palace.
d) That the Secretary of State should reply to the Chairman
of the Hong Kong Bar Association on the lines of the attached
draft.
13. The department's Legal Advisers and Gibraltar and General
Department agree.
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