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members should be re-appointed with effect from 1 July

for a further period of one year (or for so long as

they hold their present offices). The Governor now

proposes that, if we accept his recommendation that

Mr Rowe, Director of Social Welfare, should be

(this was agreed last week), appointed to the Executive Council the latter should

m Rome be replaced on the Legislative Council in September,

1970, by Mr Tsui, at present Deputy Secretary for

Home Affairs, who is to become Head of the Resettle-

ment Department at that time. This recommendation

is worth supporting since, apart from the fact that

Mr Tsui has already served both on the x-cutive and

Legislative Councils in the past whilst acting as

Secretary for Home Affairs, it would mean that the

official members would continue to include a Chinese

member. The only existing Chinese official member

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of the Council, Dr Teng, Director of Medical Services,

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is due to retire in July, 1970.

6.

Unofficial Members:

It has also been agreed with

the Governor that, as an interim measure, all the 13

existing nominated unofficial members should be re-

appointed on a provisional basis for an unspecified

period, with effect from 1 July. This arrangement

(which is in accordance with the Royal Instructions)

in whil was adopted in order to allow more time for consider

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ven to the selection of persons for

appointment on a substantive basis,

7. We have for the past two or three years been

en joining the Governor to broaden the basis for his

selection of unofficial members for appointment betr

to the Executive and to the Legislative Councils (i.e.

by extending it beyond the business and professional

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