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Miss E A Bristow
Department of the Environment
Caxton House
Tothill Street
London
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Our reference HKK 7/1
Date 5 March 1974
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Thank you for your letter of 28 February enclosing a copy of a letter from Mrs L Spicer of 15 Hill Close, Charlbury, Oxfor about the Endangered Species Bill and the question of the impet of wildlife from China into Hong Kong.
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2. The latter is a very complex question involving both the itself between China and Hong Kong, and the trade inside Hon: Kong including the conditions under which the animals are kept and slaughtered. We have been consulting the Governor, and our
ba3s; at Peking on these issues and I am enclosing for your inform copies of the telegrams concerned.
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3. We still have to reply to numerous Members of Parliament members of the public who have written to us on this subject. now have sufficient material for an adequate reply as far as Hong Kong is concerned, and are now waiting for a report from Pe ti on the reaction of the Chinese authorities to the Embassy's proac When we have this, and when we have a Minister, we shall be clearing the terms of our proposed reply.
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I shall then send a full reply to all letters from membe the public, including those whose letters have been forwarded to the DOE.
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P M Kelly (Miss) Hong Kong & Indian Ocean Department
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