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PERSONAL
DE DIP
GOVERNOR HONG KONG
(date)
Following personal for MacLehose from Watson
MY TELEGRAM NO 136 OF 2 FEBRUARY
1. I should be grateful if you would inform Denys
Roberts that Depedent Territories Senior Appointments
Board has recommended, and Secretary of State has
approved, his appointment as Colonial Secretary, Hong
Kong, with effect from 1 January 1974, and let me know
whether or not he accepts.
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2. It should be pointed out to Roberts that his
appointment as Colonial Secretary would not preclude
hi from consideration for appointment as Chief
Justice Hong Kong when that post next falls vacant,
but he will appreciate that, as Colonial Secretary he
might be involved in some exceptional matter of Government business which could concievably render
his subsequent appointment as Chief Justice
inappropriate because as Colonial Secretary he was
necessarily associated with it virtute officii.
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