From: Sir David Wilson GCMG
香港總督府
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مما
GOVERNMENT HOUSE
HONG KONG
10 June 1991
फीन
Mr Smith 014/8
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British Nationality (HK) Act:
British Undertakings
With your letter of 24 May you kindly sent me a further list of 56 companies or organisations with the recommendation that they should be considered as British Undertakings.
I am most reluctant to question the advice of the Advisory Group. Nevertheless, there are three recommendations in the present list which have been brought to my attention by my own advisers, and which cause me concern. They are:
i) Taikoo Primary School. I understand that this school was originally set up in 1967 by Swires for the children of their local dockyard workers. However the school is now an ordinary aided school receiving Government subsidies under the Code of Aid. Swires remain the sponsoring body and are represented on the school council. But can the school really be considered "British" as a result? There must incidentally be other schools in a similar position.
ii) The Hong Kong Red Cross. Can it really be
said that this is totally managed and directed from the UK? Or that it is a "subsidiary" of the UK Red Cross? Would St John Ambulance be treated in the same way?
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