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TO ROUTINE GOVERNOR HONG KONG TELNO 610 OF 21 JUNE. 1973
NEW TERRITORIES
THE CHAIRMAN AND LEADING MENBERS OF THE HEUNG YEE KUK DELEGATION CALLED ON MR ROYLE ON 19 JUNE,
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2. THE CHAIRMAN SAID THAT THEY HAD COME TO LONDON AT THE INVITATION OF CHINESE TRADERS IN BRITAIN. A MAIN PREOCCUPATION OF THE LATTER WAS THE NEED TO GET MORE CHINESE CATERING STAFF FOR THE BUSINESSES ESTABLISHED HERE, MR ROYLE REPLIED THAT THERE WERE, AS EVERYONE KNEW, IMMIGRATION PROBLEMS, BUT IF THE CHAIRMAN WOULD LIKE TO PUT HIS VIEWS ON THIS QUESTION ON PAPER WE WOULD SEE THAT THEY WERE CONSIDERED,
3. MR ROYLE SAID THE PEOPLE OF THE NEW TERRITORIES WOULD HAVE NOTICED THE RECENTLY IMPROVED RELATIONS BETWEEN DRITAIN AND CHINA, THIS IN NO WAY AFFECTED THE DETERMINATION OF HAS TO STAND BEHIND HONG KONG, HONG KONG WAS AND WOULD REMAIN A BRITISH COLONY, CHINESE MINISTERS UP IN THE HIGHEST LEVEL HAD DECLARED THEMSELVES SATISFIED WITH THE PRESENT SITUATION, AMONG THE REASONS FOR THE IMPROVEMENT IN THE ATMOSPHERE WERE CHINA'S NEED TO TRADE AND TO MP INTO CONTACT WITH THE OUTSIDE WORLD. IF RELATIONS BETWEEN BRITAIN AND CHINA WERE GOOD THIS MEANT THAT HONG KONG WAS PROTECTED,
4. THE CHAIRMAN WENT ON TO DISCUSS THE HEUNG YEE KUK'S FEARS
ABOUT THE MCKINSEY REPORT. THIS APPEARED TO SPLIT UP SOME OF THE MUST IMPORTANT RESPONSIBILITIES OF THE DISTRICT COMMISSTOMER MEV TERRITORIES BETWEEN THE SECRETARIES OF THE ENVIRONMENT, HOUSING MD HOME AFFAIRS, THE HEUNG YES KUK WERE SETTING UP A SUB-COMMITTEK TO STUDY THE PROBLEM, THE PEOPLE OF THE NEW TERRITORIES HAD A SENSE OF TRADITION AND A CLOSE RELATIONSHIP WITH THE DISTRICT OFFICERS. THE DISTRICT COMMISSTORER WAS POLITICALLY TIPORTANT PROFESSIONAL PEOPLE DID NOT TAKE ACCOUNT OF THE TRADITIONS OF THE PEOPLE OF THE NEW TERRITORIES, THE MCKINSEY REPORT WAS GILY A REPORT. ITS AUTHORS DID NOT CONSIDER POLITICAL REALITIES.
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