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CONFIDENTIAL

c) The Nomination to the Legislature of one or two Elected Members

of Local Government Bodies

This seems to be the most promising possibility but at the

present time the field consists solely of elected members of the

Urban Council. Proposals for the re-organisation of local

Government in Hong Kong have been under consideration for sometime

but have been delayed by the disturbances of 1967 and their after-

math. These proposals are now being considered in the Colony and

once the projected re-organisation is under way, this possible

change in the basis of the Legislative Council membership might

be more closely examined.

Hong Kong Dept. June 1969.

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