24 MAY '89 23:48
FROM COI TECH RADIO
TRANSCRIPT I
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SELECT COMMITTER ON HONG KONG 24 HAY 1989
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MR BOVEN VELLS (CONT):
I thought the point of your making that specific
point more than once was that we were to assume that you
accepted in general the Governor's recommendations.
MR RENTON:
No, there was no such implication,
no such implication, I actually made
no comment on whether the Home Secretary normally accepted
the Governor's recomendation or not. I think in specific
comment to you the Governor, it would be right to say,
entitled always to make his views known if he wishes to do
is
$0.
I believe in fact that he does not always do 60, or
has not always in the past, but he is entitled to. That
is why the words "the views of the Governor are always
taken into account in considering Crown Service
applications" is in our minutes.
We might have added:
"the views of the Governor, if he makes those known, are
always taken into account",
But do not please read
MR BOVEN WELLS:
(Inaudible).