66 Hong Kong
41.1199
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FED 50/400/01
57-59 Page 353441.
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TRANS TO. FED. 175/400/010.
Mr Carter
You wished
excamine the question of Portugene representation
The
Ex. Co. as raised by
Mer J. Rankie MP
2 The references to this
subject
очень про
very
scanty.
There seems
to have lesen a
representative
(Mr D'Almeda) appointed in
1948 but it is not clear
whether this was
continuation of prewar practice. The first Portugese member of Leg Co
3
appointed in 1929.
The Goob comment on
The appointment of
Rodrigues in 1959 was that
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it was
important to have
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Pr. B.
Flagged
on the courtage of 344
and the importance of Portugese (and British) reprevention is
referred to briefly in the Gous letter of
28th Sept 1960, Neither
Royal Instructions
on letters
Patent make it incumbent or
The Gou to provide for
national
or racial representation,
The requirement that all
mankers should be of British
Nationality presumably arises from their having to take
The oath of allegiance.
1449
The 1948 annual report
estimated the MO.
of Br
Subjects of Portugese origin
in Hong Kong
to be 3000
out of a European population 14.600 but I can find
of
other hef. to their number or importance.
No Higham
DuRail