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DRAFT.TELEGRAM (O.T.P.)
GOVERNOR,
HONG KONG.
(69 & 70)
FURTHER ACTION.
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Your despatch No.145 and your
confidential despatch of 22nd October.
1.
Constitution.
I am greatly impressed with the
thoroughness with which this complex matter
has been examined and the very competent
manner in which the arguments and
conclusions have been presented. I should
be glad if you would convey a suitable
expression of my appreciation to
Mr. Hazlerigg for his share of this work.
2.
Your proposals have been carefully
studied in the Department and I do not
expect to have many comments on points of
detail. Before going into details, however,
I should very much like to be fortified
with your further views on the general
question of the best course of constitutiona.
development in Hong Kong in the light of
the two considerations mentioned below.
3.
In the first place, constitutional
advance in Singapore is now likely to take
the form of widening the representative
basis of the Legislative Council by the
creation of an unofficial majority and the
election, on a non-communal basis, of a
substantial proportion of the members by an