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Mrs Royle tours hospital

Mrs Anthony Royle, wife of the British Parliamentary Under Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs, visited the maternity and casualty wards of Tang Shiu Kin Hospital yesterday

Accompanied by the Director of Medical and Health Services. Dr G. H Choa and Mrs Choa Mrs Royle toured the post-natal ward. stopping now and then to chat with mothers

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and to admire their babies.

She was told the women were kept in hospital for three days after giving birth.

Mrs Royle was introduced 10 the youngest patient, a 19-year old mother who did not wish to be named.

• Above: Mrs Royle talking with Mrs Lee who is holding her five-month-old son, Hon-biu.

Mr Royle agrees

Mr. Anthony Royle yesterday responded favourably to a Heung Yee Kuk proposal that changes in present land policies were urgently needed.

According to the Kuk's Chairman. Mr Chan Yat-sun, the proposal was brought up at a meeting and was met "with agreement" by Mr Royle.

Mr Chan said the talks centred on reforms in the present land policies and that he emphasised to the visiting Under-Secretary that the policies of Government development in the NT were "most unfair and colonialistic."

"We stressed that a reform is urgent to enable development in the NT. since development is already saturated in both Hongkong and Kowloon,” he said.

The Kuk officials handed a memorandum to Mr Royle at the end of the meeting.

Meanwhile. teachers fighting for a better pay scale yesterday petitioned Mr Royle for his understanding and assistance to help them achieve their goal.

The petition was delivered at the Colonial Secretariat by a delegation of teachers' representatives.

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Colony to gain from Britain's entry to EEC

.Hongkong would definitely benefit from Britain's entry into the European Common Market, the Parliamentary Under-Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs, Mr Anthony Royle, said yesterday.

This was one of the topics discussed over lunch with top members of the British Trade Commission.

"Joining the EEC would make for a strong Britain," said Mr Rovie. "And a, strong Britain would be able to look after Hongkong's interests in Europe.

"I am confident Hongkong's interests will be well and truly safeguarded."

Mr Royle also discussed Britain's trade prospects in the Colony, following the recent British Industrial Exhibition.

Later in the afternoon, Mr Royle visited the Director of Education, Mr J. Canning.

A spokesman for the Department said expansion plans for education were discussed and Mr Royle had asked questions about vanous aspects of education in the Colony!.

However, the spokesman would not comment further on the discussions.

Mr and Mrs Royle will leave Hongkong today for Bangkok for

a three-day visit Thailand.

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A British Embassy spokesman in Bangkok said yesterday that Mr Royle was expected to discuss with Thai officials the "changing political situation in Asia in anticipation of the Indochina ceasefire."

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