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with a new to its pubhreaten there to the Governor of Hong Kong indicating that
as the 1949 proposals have the effect, in
practice, of limiting the proposed franchise to a very small proportion of the present
population of Hong Kong, the Secretary of
State for the Colonies would be glad if further
consideration could be given to the possibility
of devising other means, whereby the process for
the selection of unofficial members of the
Legislative Council would be placed on a broader basis, in which non-British, as well as British,
interests could participate, i.e. by some process
of indirect election.
There will still be .a number of nominated
members who will probably be nominated from the Chinese, Portuguese and Indian communities but no final decision on this point has yet been taken.