TO:
THE RIGHT HONOURABLE LORD GORONWY-ROBERTS, P.C.
NIINISTER
THE UNDER-3EGADTARY OF STATE FOR FOREIGN AND COMMONWEALTH AFFAIRS.
FROM:
THE HEUNG YEE KUK, NEW TERRITORIES, HONG KONG.
THE HEUNG YEE KUK'S REPRESENTATION TO THE BRITISH GOVERNMENT CONCERNING
THE PROBLEMS OF THE NEW TERRITORIES, HONG KONG.
I FOREWORD
The New Territories is leased land held and administered by Great
Britain basing on the LEASE OF NEW TERRITORIES signed between the Chinese and
the British Governments on 9th June 1898. The land was originally part of Sun On
District (now Po On District) Kwangtung Province. The Lease will expire in 1997.
Its area covers 366 square miles, taking up 91% of the total area of Hong Kong.
Its population is more than a quarter of the 4 million odd figure for the whole
of Hong Kong. In 1937 an area adjacent to Urban Kowloon was excluded from the
New Territories, designated "New Kowloon" and administered separately from the
New Territories. This was the beginning of the disintegration of the
administrative structure of the New Territories.
Extraordinary social conditions exist in the New Territories because
of the inhabitants' relationship with China as regards historical origin,
cultural heritage, georgraphical background, national sentiments and ways of
living, as well as the LEASE OF NEW TERRITORIES and the international situation.
The New Territories are still administered under the style of colonial
administration when colonialism has been repudiated by people of the whole free
world. Hong Kong's continued existence, social stability and prosperity depend
upon the maintemnce of friendly relations between China and Great Britain. Such
friendly relations will be jeopardized if the present dissatisfaction of the
inhabitants of the New Territories continues. This dissatisfaction has been
caused by unfair laws
enacted at the turn of the
century, and since then, the unfair policies imposed on the people. Today, the
New Territories people still lead an oppressive colonial life.
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the products of colonialism
The Heung Yee Kuk of the New Territories, Hong Kong, was established
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