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會協育敎九港
HONG KONG & KOWLOON EDUCATIONAL ASSOCIATION LTD.
To His Excellency
HONG KONG
Foreign Secretary, Dr. David Owen.
No. 8 Mong Kok Road, 7th floor, Flat C,
KOWLOON.
25th October, 1978
Your Excellency,
As of late, it has come to our attention that reports are prevalent
in the local press to the effect that the British Goverment is considering
to further extend the term of office for Sir Murray MacLehose as the Governor
of Hong Kong. If this news is correct, then we are truly delighted and would
feel grateful to Her Majesty Queen Elizabeth II as well as the Prime Minister
and the Foreign Secretary for their wisdom and insight in employing worthy
public servants to best cause and purposes. We deeply appreciate your
kind effort and beg to convey our heartfelt thanks to you all. If the current
news is incorrect, we are obliged to beg you to petition to the Prime Minister
and through him to Her Majesty the Queen to re-extend Sir Murray's term of
office in Hong Kong so that he may have adequate time in rendering more
and greater service to the community as well as to Anglo-Chinese relations.
It is true that relations with China is now amicable and on
excellent terms, but as to trade, there is still plenty of room for improvement.
At the present time, China has launched an ambitious programme to achieve
a four-fold modernisation, both military supplies and consumer goods are
therefore in dire demand. If Britain could strive hard to gain upper hand in
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