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she recognises Mrs Royle. Holding the

paper is Mr Wong Yan-chiu, Chairman for the Sub-committee for the Home.

A right 'Royle' day

for Mrs Chuk, 88

For an 88-year-old woman to be well-informed about visiting dignitaries is expecting much,

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Wanted:

Royle as mediator

The Civic Association wants enlist the aid of the Parliamentary Under-Secretary for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs, Mr Anthony Royle, as a 'go

between' with the Governor, Sir Murray MacLehose.

The Secretary-General of the Association, Mr Edmund Chow, said yesterday members were anxious for Mr Royle to "understand the Association's position on some issues such as crime.'

"While supporting the broad outline of the anti-crime campaign, we feel there are areas where improvements would be desirable,” he said.

"These are the areas we will discuss with Mr Royle. If he accepts our arguments, then perhaps he can present them more forcibly to the Governor and the Government."

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The Association sent a letter

Government to

House addressed to Mr Royle on November 11, but members have not yet verified that he received it.

However, they hope to meet Mr Royle today to discuss the issues dealt with in the letter.

These points are:

• To step up the campaign to recruit well-educated policemen.

• To place emphasis on people of good moral character in the current expansion of the Auxiliary Police.

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Ο ΤΟ regroup organisations involved in the Clean Hongkong campaign to take part in an anti-crime drive when the clean-up is over.

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Not so with Mrs Chuk Fong-chun.

Yesterday, she gave Mrs Anthony Royle, wife of the visiting Parliamentary Under- Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs, a big surprise by calmly announcing that she knew her.

Mrs Chuk took one look at the attractive Mrs Royle as she entered the room and told the officials of the Home for the Aged in Wong Tai Sin that she recognised her.

Thinking that they wouldn't believe her, she picked up the Chinese papers she was reading and pointed to Mrs Royle's picture.

Mrs Royle was slightly overwhelmed and repeated: "It's very sweet of you."

Through an interpreter, she asked Mrs Chuk how long she had been staying at the home and several other questions.

Beaming happily, Mrs Chuk said she entered the Home six years ago. She was originally from Shanghai, she added, but found she was too old to go back there. Besides, she prefers Hongkong.

Mrs Royle spent more than 30 minutes in the Home, speaking and 'joking li;with residents.

In the men's dormitory, Mrs Royle asked if there wATE romances between the men and the women on the lower floors.

She commented that this would not be unusual in

England, but it might be in Hongkong because of different social customs.

She was surprised that the elderly people were healthy and that none suffered from arthritis.

Arthritics is common among the elderly in Britain, possibly because of the climate, she explained.

The General Secretary of the

Hongkong Chinese Christian Churches Union, the Rev David Lew, showed Mrs Royle, round the building.

@ On leaving Hongkong tomorrow, Mr Røyle will visit Thailand, Nepal and India.

In Thailand he will meet the King and have talks with his ministers."

In Nepal he will officially open a section of road built with the aid of British funds.

In India he will confer with the Foreign Minister.

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