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SUGGESTED AMENDMENTS

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1. Para 3, 1st sentence.

2.

For "pushing forward reforms" read "the conduct of the ordinary business of government"

Para 4(1), 3rd sentence.

For "income" read "revenue".

(ii),4th sentence.

add after "dislocation"

"T

'although real wages were rising"

3.

Para 7, 2nd sentence.

Insert "some" before "international" or, alternatively, substitue "multinational" for "international".

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(HMG does not "have" to act for Hong Kong Govt. in this

context it is a power which can be delegated like many

and frequently does not so act when Hong Kong and one other nation is involved.)

others

4.

Para 11 5th & 6th sentences.

Substitute:

"Hong Kong's methods of providing medical care to the broad mass of the population actually worked out to be cheaper to the average man than the "free" health service in Britain. Small contributions towards the cost of medical and educational services were not necessarily undesirable."

5.

Para 12(i), 2nd sentence. Amend to read:

".... government naturally could not dictate to the Courts what fines to impose; maximum fines were generally adequate."

(ii), 3rd sentence. Amend to read:

".... explained that minimum fines were unpopular with the Courts, who sometimes acquitted people ....."

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