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2,000 ODD CASE FILES INVOLVED. THE FOLLOWING TABLE SHOWS THE NUMBER OF PEOPLE WHO SERVED/ARE SERVING PRISON SENTENCES FROM (A). DANGERIOUS DRIVING AND (B) OTHER ROAD TRAFFIC OFFENCES:
FINANCIAL
YEAR
69/70
70/71
71/72
72/73
(A)
DANGERIOUS
NOT AVAILABLE (DIFFERENT CLASSIFCATION USED)
DRIVING
6
4
2
(B) OTHER ROAD TRAFFIC OFFENCES
40
4
13
68
73/74 (TO THE PRESENT) 5
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2. WE ARE SORRY THAT SOME FIGURES ARE FOR CALENDAR AND OTHERS FOR FINANCIAL YEARS: AND THAT WE CANNOT PROVIDE ALL THE INFORMATION SOUGHT, BECAUSE OUR STATISTICS ARE NOOT KEPPPTTTT IN SUCH A FORM AS TO MAKE IT READILY AVAILABLE. WE HAVE INCLUDED EVERYTHING THAT WE COULD PROVIDE IN THE TIME ALLOWED - AND VERY MUCH HOPE IT WILL SUFFICE, AS A DISPROPORTIONATE AMOUNT OF WORK WOULD BE CAUSED HAD WE TO TRY AND ANSWER ALL THE QUESTIONS PRECISELY. WE THUS SUGGEST THAT THIS BE SAID, WHEN THE AVVAILABLLE, FIGURES ARE PROVIDED
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FCO PASS COPY TO HONG KONG GOVERNMENT OFFICE LONDON.
MACLEHOSE
FILES:
HKIOD
PARLIAMENTARY UNIT
PS TO MR. BLAKER
MR. YOUDE
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COPIES TO:
HONG KONG GOVT OFFICE, LONDON.
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