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SECRET

Registry

No.

HKK 22/7 DRAFT

LETTER

SECURITY CLASSIFICATION

To:-

Top Secret.

Secret

Confidential.

Restricted. Unclassified.

PRIVACY MARKING

Sir Hugh Norman-Walker KCMG OBE Acting Governor

HONG KONG

Type 1 +

From

Sir L Monson

Telephone No. & Ext,

Department

..In Confidence

D

C.C. HKK 9/5.

I am afraid that we have kept you waiting rather

a long time for a reply to your letter of 7 June

about the opening of the Science Centre at the

Chinese University.

You will now have received the Secretary of

State's telegram telling you of his proposal to

visit Hong Kong on 13/15 February and you will have

gathered from it that the idea of his coming to Hong

Kong in April for the opening of the Science Centre

is no longer a starter.

I am accordingly dropping you this line simply

to let you know that we are still hoping to arrange

for a Minister to attend the opening and as soon as

I can let you have any concrete information I will

do so.

I am sorry that you and the University

authorities have been inconvenienced in this way,

particularly since you agreed at our request to

change the date of the opening.

However as you

will understand the movements of the Secretary of

State are always liable to alteration at short

hotice and I am glad that you made this clear to the

Vice Chancellor in the first place.

SECRET