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RECORD OF A MEETING BETWEEN THE FOREIGN AND COMMONWEALTH SECRETARY AND THE UNOFFICIAL MEMBERS OF THE EXECUTIVE AND LEGISLATIVE COUNCILS OF HONG KONG IN THE CENTRAL GOVERNMENT OFFICES, HONG KONG, AT 11.15 A.M. ON MONDAY 14 FEBRUARY, 1972

Present:

The Rt. Hon.

Executive Council

Sir Alec Douglas-Home

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Sir Stanley Tomlinson

The Hon. Sir Albert Rodrigues, CBE., ED., JP.

The Hon. Sir Douglas Clague, CBE., HC., QPM.,

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Mr. J. H. G. Leahy

The Hon. Sir Kenneth Ping-fan Fung, C35.,

The Hon. Sir Yuet-keung Kan, CBE., JF

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The Hon. J. A. H. Saunders, CBE., DSO., MC., JP

The Hon. Woo, Pak-chuen, OBE., JP.

The Hon. Szeto Wai, OBE., JP.

The Hon. G. R. Roos, ORE., JP. Legislative Council

The Hon. Wilfred Wong Sien-bing, OBE., JP.

The Hon. Mrs. Ellen Li Shu-pui, CBE., JP.

The Hon. Wilson Wang Tze-sam, 03E., JP.

The Hon. H. J. C. Browne, OBE., JP.;

Dr. the Hon. Chung Sze-yuan, OBE., JP.,

The Hon. Lee Quo-wei, OBE., JP.

The Hon. Oswald Cheung, OBE., QC., JP.

The Hon. G. M. B. Salmon, JP.

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The Hon. Lo Kuee-seong, OBE., JP.

Sir Albert Rodrigues welcomed Sir Alec Douglas-Home and said that he had come at an important time because the Commonwealth was changing in character if not in subject. sint.

Hong Kong remained a colony and he hastened to say that he did not want it any other way.

Nevertheless the people of Hong Kong represented 80% of the total population of all

Britain's dependent territories. He believed therefore that Britain and Hong Kong ought

to have a particularly close relationship. He gained the impression however, that

the position of Hong Kong was not always borne in mind. They needed a gesture here and

there, a little extra consideration. Particular questions were visas for, for example,

Japan, which he hoped Sir Alec would raise with the Japanese Government, civil aviation

over which, while they had to buil, and maintain the facilities, they had no control,

and trade, where they had been disappointed to receive no response on cotton textiles.

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