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NOTHING TO BE WRITTEN IN THIS MARGIN

Registry No. GK

Unclassified

DRAFT TO M.P.

To:

Anthony Grant Esq MP House of Commons London SW1

Type 1 +

From

Mr Royle

Telephone No. & Ext.

Department

Consular

To Be Seen By:

You wrote to me on 19 October enclosing a letter

from your constituent Mrs Ann Maher of 24 Bishop

Ken Road, Harrow Weald, Middlesex. Mrs Maher

had put forward questions about the case of ex-

Superintendent Godber which had been raised by

her sister in Hong Kong.

Enclosures:

Copying Action:

To (Post):

Because Hong Kong is a Crown colony it does not

mean that it has no control over its own affairs.

The colony has its own government and legislature

which deal with its internal affairs, subject

to the guidance of the Secretary of State for

Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs and the help

and advice of his officials in London. The

problem of corruption in Hong Kong is therefore

a matter essentially for the Hong Kong Government.

*Bag By

*Fastest Means

*With *Without

Enclosures

*Report (to the Department)

For *Necessary Action.

I had extensive discussions with the Governor on

this question when he was in this country

recently, and as you will see from the enclosed

extract of his recent speech to Legislative

Council, he is taking vigorous measures to

ing

tackle this very worry/ problem. As the Governor

/says

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