From
Ref.
(4)
Tel. No.
Date
in
Director of Education
ED(RB) C/771/42/74/L
5-778311 Ext. 118
4th March 1982.
MEMO
To
Secretary for Education (Attn.: Mr. N.C.L. Shipman)
Your Ref. (31)
in
ED.B 53/2041/75 II
1765
dated
18.2.82.
Letter from Mr. LAM Kwai-tim to the Lord Chancellor
Our own departmental records show that Mr. LAM Kwai-tim was a student of the Evening School of Higher Chinese Studies run by the Adult Education Section. Information provided by the Principal of the E.S.H.C.S. indicates Mr. Lam was an extremely unbalanced person: one lecturer at the E.S.H.C.S. who also works full-time at the Hang Seng School of Commerce reported to the Principal on 19.3.81 that LAM had visited him at the H.S.S.C. staff quarters asking him to act as a referee for his "declaration of loyalty to Her Majesty the Queen so as to save him from being appointed as the Secretary of State of the U.S. Government"! Mr. Lam was also reported to the Principal as making phone calls to lecturers at the E.S.H.C.S. and in particular his classmate, Miss Wong, (mentioned in Lam's letter) who was an executive officer of the Government Information Service. It was learned that Mr. Lam was admitted to Castle Peak Hospital on 27.3.81 and on 2.4.81 Lam's father phoned the Principal saying his son had asked him to convey a message to him and all the lecturers "to make contact with the authority" (presumably to get him out of the hospital?).
2.
In view of these facts and the content of Mr. Lam's letter which would seem to confirm the unbalanced state of his mind, I do not think it necessary or appropriate to make enquiries of Lingnan where Mr. Raymond Huang is no longer principal.
AJR:sy
Appium
(A.J. Reeve)
for Director of Education
S MAR 1982
3.5
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