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RECEIVED AN REGISTRY No.51
CALL 1972
Miss Emery (PDTD)
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Reference.
FCO PRINT AND DEPENDENT TERRITORIES
1.
In Mr Laird's absence from the office I am replying to paragraph 5 of your minute of 7 February to Mr Shaw.
2.
I am afraid that we cannot comply with the request in that paragraph since we have not printed any despatch from Hong Kong since May 1969.
3. The new Governor of Hong Kong, Sir Murray
MacLehose, has stated his intention of sending despatches from Hong Kong in the same manner as he was accustomed
to do as an Ambassador. We should therefore be in
a position to let you have suitable despatches in the future.
4. On the more general question of the distribution of Dependent Territory Despatches to all other Governors and administrators, I agree with the views in paragraph 3 of Mr Shaw's minute to you of 8 February. It should not be difficult for Dependent Territory Departments of the FCO to ensure between themselves that their respective territories receive copies of appropriate despatches sent to the FCO by other dependent territories.
10 February 1972
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storar cc.corord of
FCO PRINT AND DEPENDENT TERRITORIES
1.
Mr Gaminara
Telephone No. & Ext.
Department
HKD
Paragraph 5 of your minute dated 7 October
asks for print copies of any recent despatches by
Governors of dependent territories. I am afraid
that as far as Hong Kong is concerned we do not
have anything suitable for your purposes since the
tended former Governor, Sir D Trench, decided not to
produce periodic reviews and we last printed a despatch
from the Governor in May 1969 (No 617 dated 24 May
1969). However, the new Governor, Sir Murray
MacLehose, has stated his intention of sending
despatches from Hong Kong in the same way as he
was accustomed to do from Embassies. We should,
therefore, be in a position to let you have
suitable despatches in the future.
2. On the more general question of the distribution
of dependent territory despatches to all other
Governors, although I do not think that despatches
from other dependent territories would have much
value for the Hong Kong Government, we would be
happy to fall in with a general ruling.
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From
Miss P M Kelly
Telephone No. & Ext.
Department
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Sir Hugh Norman-Walker's letter dated 26 January
1972 at (2) encloses the former Governor's
Valedictory Despatch. It has been acknowledged
by Sir L Monson (3).
2. You wished to consider the question of whether
this despatch should be printed. We last printed
a despatch from the Governor on 24 May 1969. The
Valedictory despatch, although sent to us in
January, is in fact dated 19 October 1971 and it
takes the form of a short covering letter from
the former Governor together with a copy of a speech
which he made at a new session of the Legislative
Council in Hong Kong on 1 October 1971. The
speech is a long detailed stocktaking of progress
in Hong Kong during the period of the former
Governor's administration.
3. On reading the back files the consensus of
opinion seems to be that Valedictory despatches
by Governors are a good thing and should ideally
consist of a summing-up of the situation in the
territory with a description of progress that has
been made and, if possible, a prognosis for the
future.
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