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DRAFT INFORMATION NOTE
To:-
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Mr. Godden
12/1
(Cam to No. Wilford,
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Type 1+2
From
4. Carter
Telephone No. & Ext.
Department
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The Minister may wish to be aware of the attached
correspondence which relates to discussions which
Sir David Trench had with Sir Edmund Compton, Parliamentary Commissioner for administration in the
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United Kingdom, shortly before the former returned to
Hong Kong on December.
In a statement which he made immediately after
his arrival back in the Colony, the Governor was
reported by certain Hong Kong newspapers (see attached
copies of the pros cuttings) as having quoted views
expressed to him by the Parliamentary Commissioner
in the course of the discussions referred to above,
on the subject of the appointment of an Ombudsman
in Hong Kong.
These press reports caused the Hong Kong branch
of "Justice" to address a letter (copy attached) to
the Parliamentary Commissioner.
Following the
receipt of this letter, the Secretary to the
Parliamentary Commissioner informed the Department
Sir Edmuniť
that the Parliamentary Commission was somewhat surprised
by the letter since it had been agreed between himself
and the Governor at the time of the discussions that al-
Gurnar though the latter might make public the fact that those
discussions had taken place, he would not disclose the
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