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Mr Clift understood that the covering note on the Chinese list said that their list might contain wives and children of Macau fishermen. The number of these was estimated to be around 200. The two sides had agreed that the arrangements were only for the dependants of Hong Kong fishermen. It seemed therefore that if these 200 or so were taken away the total number might still be within the agreed ceiling. Mr. Clift requested the Guangdong authorities to let him know which were the dependants of Macau fishermen so that they could be deleted from the consolidated list.
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Mr. Clift said he would be grateful if the ID cards of Hong Kong fishermen could be checked before one-way permits were issued to their wives or children to ensure that dependants of Macau fishermen were not issued with such permits. The Hong Kong side would be happy to check whether the applicant was the wife of a Hong Kong fisherman or not.
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Mr. Clift asked to be informed as to when the first batch of boat wives would be issued with one-way permits. also wished to learn what "mark" would be made on one-permits to distinguish them from other one-way permits. He suggested that the Chinese authorities could inform Immigration Department on this point through border liaison channels. Finally, Mr. Clift said that Immigration Department would like to know if the boat wives and their children would be arriving in special batches or irregularly as individual families amongst other one-way permit holders.
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Mr. Fu thanked Mr. Clift for his clear explanation. The registration of boat wives was a very complicated matter. When the Chinese had sent their list they knew it was not accurate. Mr. Fu said he would like the Hong Kong side to check which of the wives were dependants of Hong Kong fishermen. He confirmed that their list contained wives of Macau fishermen.
He had feared that if they had tried to draw
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