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RECORD OF A MEETING BETWEEN THE FOREIGN AND COMMONWEALTHI SECRETARY AND THE UNOFFICIAL MEIRERS OF THE EXECUTIVE AND LEGISLATIVE COUNCILS. OF HONG KONG IN THE CENTRAL GOVRISTHENT OPPICES, HONG KONG, AT 11.15 A.M. ON MONDAY 14 FEBRUARY, 1972

Present:

The Rt. Hon.

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Fxecutive Council

Sir Alec Douglas-Home

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

The lion. Sir Douglas Clague, CSE., MO-, QPH.,

72. JP.

The Hon. Sir Kenneth Ping-fan Fung, CBB

The Hon. Sir Yuet-keung Kan, CBB., JP

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Sir Stanley Tomlinson

Mr. J. H. 3. Leahy

Mr. E. 0. Laird

Mr. J. A. N. Graham

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The Hon. J. A. H. Saunders, 32., DSC., HC.;

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

The Hon. Szeto Wal, OBE., JP.

The Hon. G. R. Roos, 035., JP. Legislative Council

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

The Hon. Mrs. Ellen Li Shu-pui, 053,, JP.

The Hon. Wilson Wang Tzc-sam, OBE. JP.

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The Hon. H. J. C. Browns, CBE.,

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

The Hon. Lee Quo-vei, 088., JP.

The Hon. Oswald Cheung, UBE., Q0.; JP.

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

The Hon. Ann Tse-kai, 03B., JP.

The Hon. Lo Kuee-seong, 03E., 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 soject, spint 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 hare 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 tontilos.

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