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MR. REES-WILLIAMS,

To ask the Secretary of State for the Colonies, what is the present position with regard to the proposed constitutional changes in Hong Kong.

MR. CREECH JONES:

ANSWER

I informed the House on March 5th of my general

agreement with the recommendations of the late Governor,

Bir 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

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to put them into effect. I have arranged for aoples of

the despatches in question to be placed in the Library

of the Kouse.

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