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OUTWARD TELEGRAM
101
IMPORTANT
TO HONG KONG (0.A,G.)
FROM S. OF S., COLONIES.
Sent 21st July, 1947. 20.45 hrs.
No. 1147 Confidential.
1
My telegram No. 1145, paragraph 1,
Constitution.
Following Parliamentary Question is down for answer on Wednesday 23rd July.
2.
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What is the present position with regard to the proposed
Constitutional changes in Hong Kong. Ends.
I shall reply as follows,
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I informed the House on March the 5th of my general
agreement with the recommendations of the late Governor, Sir 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 to put them into effect. I have arranged for copies of the despatches in question to be placed in the Library of the House.
Copies sent to:-
Foreign Office Treasury
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Mr. A.L. Scott.
Mr. D.R. Serpell, 0.B.E, Mr. H.R. Apperley,
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