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WEDNESDAY, MAY 11, 1988

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BURNING OF SUBMISSIONS TO SURVEY OFFICE TOMORROW

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GREEN

SUBMISSIONS MADE TO THE SURVEY OFFICE IN RESPONSE TO THE PAPER "THE 1987 REVIEW OF DEVELOPMENTS IN REPRESENTATIVE GOVERNMENT" WILL BE DESTROYED AT THE KENNEDY TOWN INCINERATOR TOMORROW (THURSDAY).

PAPER WAS

A GOVERNMENT SPOKESMAN SAID THAT WHEN THE GREEN PUBLISHED IN MAY 1987, THE GOVERNMENT INVITED MEMBERS OF THE PUBLIC TO EXPRESS THEIR VIEWS TO THE SURVEY OFFICE.

1T WAS ALSO PROMISED THAT SUBMISSIONS IN RESPECT OF WHICH CONFIDENTIALITY WAS REQUESTED BY THE CONTRIBUTOR WOULD BE TREATED ACCORDINGLY AND DESTROYED AFTER THE PUBLICATION OF THE WHITE PAPER.

"THIS COMMITMENT IS BEING HONOURED HE SAID.

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BEING I SUBJECT

THE SPOKESMAN SAID THE GOVERNOR IN COUNCIL HAD NOW ORDERED THE DESTRUCTION OF ALL SUBMISSIONS EXCEPT, FOR THE TIME SUBMISSIONS WHICH WERE ALLEGEDLY "FALSE" AND CONSEQUENTLY THE OF POLICE INVESTIGATIONS,

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THESE ALLEGEDLY FALSE SUBMISSIONS WILL ALSO BE DESTROYED

HE SAID.

POLICE INVESTIGATIONS ARE COMPLETE,

WHEN

THE DESTRUCTION OF THE SUBMISSIONS WILL BE SUPERVISED BY MR ANDREW SO, ONE OF THE TWO MONITORS APPOINTED BY THE GOVERNOR IN 1987 TO OVERSEE THE WORK OF THE SURVEY OFFICE. THE OTHER MONITOR, MR P.K.

IS NOT IN HONG KONG.

ME JOHN CHAN, THE DEPUTY CHIEF SECRETARY, AND MR ADOLF HSV, WHO WAS COMMISSIONER OF THE SURVEY OFFICE, WILL ALSO BE PRESENT.

NOTE TO EDITORS:

ARRANGEMENTS HAVE BEEN MADE FOR THE MEDIA ΤΟ COVER THE DESTRUCTION OF THE SUBMISSIONS TOMORROW (THURSDAY).

CONFIDENTIAL SUBMISSIONS IN SEALED BOXES WILL BE REMOVED FROM A SAFF ROOM AT THE CENTRAL GOVERNMENT OFFICES, LOWER ALBERT ROAD, AT 9.30 AM AND TRANSPORTED TO THE KENNEDY WILL BE BURNED.

OTHER SURMISSIONS,

WHICH ARE

OFFICE, WILL BE REMOVED DIRECT TO THE THE SAME MANNER.

TOWN 1NCINERATOR WHERE THEY

STORED AT THE PUBLIC RECORDS INCINERATOR AND DESTROYED IN

/MEDIA REPRESENTATIVES