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In Confidence
To:-
FS/FTime Minister
Mr Shaw
No:10 Down's St.
1.
FROM
PS/Secretary of Stat
Telephone No. Ext.
Department
In your letter of 8 June, you asked for our
advice as to whether there would be any objection
to the Prime Minister writing a letter of encourage- for the Organ find project at the Chinese ment to the Hong Kong Arts Festival Society in university in Hoy Kong.
support of their efforts
to raise money for a new
pipe organ to be installed
Chinese University.
Commented 2. We have consulted the Governor, who has replied.
Organ project is not jonnally Chinese
a
that the scheme appears to be a sound one and that University Scheme, But it does have University a new pipe organ should strengthen music teaching
mors and the organ will be housed in a chopped in Hong Kong. We therefore see no objection to the
on the Univerity Campus. The scheme is he
Prime Minister-
letter on the lines-
вид
Aromited partly by music teachers at the Invisity and partly by people inconnected with the University but
interested
in
Organ Music.
funds
Sed.
are
ber's raised from the community at
is
large. At the moment there are
tive pipe orga
only
4K.; nerther ик.;
of them wholly sat's factas.
85 The Govenor concludes that the where
appears to be soundly based; should
teaching strengthen music in Hong Kons; and seems generally worthwhile, the can do no objection
better
better of
Prime n -Car. Neither can we.