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Sir,
Constitutional Changes in Hong Kong
In his despatch No. 145 of the 22nd
October, 1946, Sir Mark Young submitted his
views and recommendations for changing the
existing constitutional arrangements in
Hong Kong, so as to give the inhabitants of
the Colony a practical and effective-share
in the management of their own affairs.
2. These recommendations were the
subject of close examination in the
Colonial Office and consultation with
Sir Mark Young prior to the statement
which I made in the House of Commons on
the 5th of March, 1947. In that statement.
I announced my agreement with the main
recommendation for the establishment of a
Municipal Council, on the widest
representative basis possible, which would
gradually assume as many of the present
functions of the Central Government as can
appropriately be assigned to it, and would
embrace in its administrative area the
whole of the Island of Hong Kong, the
Kowloon ceded territory, and that part of
the New Territories known as New Kowloon,
I also explained that the remainder of the
area