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WEDNESDAY, MAY 6, 1992

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LORD WILSON TO LEAVE HK IN JULY

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A

SPOKESMAN ANNOUNCED TODAY (WEDNESDAY} GOVERNMENT GOVERNOR, LORD WILSON, WILL LEAVE HONG KONG ON JULY 3 (FRIDAY).

MR

THAT THE

CHRISTOPHER PATTEN, WILL

IN ARRIVE

THE

HIS SUCCESSOR, TERRITORY ON JULY 9 (THURSDAY).

SIR

THE DAVID FORD WILL BE THE ACTING GOVERNOR DURING BETWEEN LORD WILSON'S DEPARTURE AND THE ARRIVAL OF MR PATTEN.

PERIOD

YAXLEY HOSTS RECEPTION TO SAY "THANK YOU"

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ATTENDED A FAREWELL MR CHRIS PATTEN, THE GOVERNOR-DESIGNATE,

COMMISSIONER, MR RECEPTION TODAY (WEDNESDAY) HOSTED BY THE HONG KONG

FOR RESIDENCE

RETIRING MEMBERS OF JOHN YAXLEY, AT HIS WESTMINSTER

HONG KONG AFFAIRS AND WERE PARLIAMENT WHO HAD SHOWN AN INTEREST IN GOOD FRIENDS OF THE TERRITORY.

SPECIAL ON A

MESSAGE DURING THE RECEPTION, MR YAXLEY PASSED

NUMBERED OVER 30 FROM THE GOVERNOR, LORD WILSON, TO THE GUESTS WHO

KONG MP'S AND PEERS MOST OF THEM FORMER MEMBERS OF THE BRITISH-HONG PARLIAMENTARY GROUP (BHPG).

TAKEN

POSITIVE

THE GOVERNOR THANKED THEM, FOR ALL THE INTEREST THEY HAD

AFFAIRS WHILE KONG IN HONG

IN PARLIAMENT AND

THE FOR CONTRIBUTION EACH AND EVERY ONE OF THEM HAD MADE.

LUCE THE GOVERNOR HAD A SPECIAL WORD OF THANKS FOR SIR RICHARD

WITH AND MR FRANCIS MAUDE FOR THEIR ROLES AS FOREIGN OFFICE MINISTERS

PETER BLAKER FOR ALL SPECIAL RESPONSIBILITY FOR HONG KONG, AND SIR

BRITISH-HONG KONG PARLIAMENTARY THAT HE HAD DONE AS CHAIRMAN OF THE GROUP.

LORD

IN

THEY WILSON HOPED

WOULD NOT LOSE INTEREST

THE

SAID HONG KONG TERRITORY, AND

WOULD CERTAINLY NOT FORGET THEIR EFFORTS. HE ADDED THAT THEY WOULD ALWAYS BE WELCOME IN HONG KONG.

GOODLAD,

WERE MR ALASTAIR AMONG THE GUESTS AT THE RECEPTION THE FOREIGN OFFICE MINISTER WITH SPECIAL RESPONSIBILITY FOR HONG KONG, DR JOHN MAREK AND MR ROGER SIMS. FORMER VICE-CHAIRMAN RESPECTIVELY OF THE BHPG AND THE FORMER GOVERNOR OF MACLEHOSE.

MR

AND TREASURER HONG KONG, LORD

AT THE

MR

CALLED ON YAXLEY EARLIER IN THE DAY

PATTEN OF THE GOVERNOR-DESIGNATE'S FOREIGN AND COMMONWEALTH OFFICE AS PART BRIEFING PROGRAMME BY THE HONG KONG GOVERNMENT OFFICE IN LONDON.

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