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MR. REES-WILLIAMS,
To ask the Secretary of State for the Colonies, what is the present position with regard to the proposed constitutional changes in Hong Kong.
MR. CREECH JONES:
ANSWER
I informed the House on March 5th of my general
agreement with the recommendations of the late Governor,
Bir Mark Young, for the establishment of a Municipal
Council and a modification in the constitution of the
Legislative Council Earlier this month I sent to the
Acting Governor of Hong Kong a despatch containing my
detailed comments on those recommendations, and authorised
him to proceed at once with all preparations necessary
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to put them into effect. I have arranged for aoples of
the despatches in question to be placed in the Library
of the Kouse.
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