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

Present:

Fxecutive Council

The Rt. Hon.

Sir Alec Douglas-Home

Sir Stanley Tomlinson

Mr. J. H. G. Leahy

K.T. M.P.

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

The Hon. Sir Douglas Clague, (BE., HQ,, QPM,,

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Mr. E. 0. Laird

Mr. J. A. N. Graham

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The Hen. Sir Kenneth Ping-fan Fung, C3E.,

The Hon. Sir Yuet-keung Kan, CB2., 39

The Hon. J. A. II. Saunders, C32., D80., KO.,

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

The Hon. Szeto Wai, OBE. JF.

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

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

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

The Hon. Wilson Wang Tzc-sam, (BE., JP.

The Hon. H. J. C. Browne, OBE., JI'.,

Dr. the Hon. Chung Sze-yuan, 05E.,

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

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The Hion. Oswald Cheung, OBE., Q0., JP.

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

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

The lion. Lo Kree-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 svjest, ofint.

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 kowever, 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 build 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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