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time if the first draft of a Colonial Constitution
is prepared elsewhere.
Perhaps you will let me see papers to enable
me to answer this letter.
agge
11th November, 1946.
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Mr. Roberts-Wray.
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Thank you for letting me see the extracts from Mr. Hazlerigg's letter. The reference is to the proposed revision of the Constitution which was foreshadowed in a speech which the Governor was authorized to make on the restoration of Civil Government. He then said that H.M.G. had had under cons on the means by which the people of Hong Kong might be given a fuller share in the management of their own affairs and that one method of achieving this end might be by handing over certain functions of the internal administration, hitherto exercised by the Governato a Municipal Council.
The attached telegram from the Governor suggests that the proposals are likely to centre on the establishment of such a Municipal Council.
His recommendations have just been received but I have not yet been able to study them. I will, of' course, be sending the papers on to you in due course. Meanwhile I have put the extract from Mr. Hazlerigg's letter to you of the 25th October attached to you minute on the file.
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