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growth and employ the population despite lack of assurance about the Colony's long- term future.
e) The ultimate responsibility of Parliament coupled with absence of representation of Hong Kong in it, and the formal devolution of financial autonomy to, and practical exercise of commercial autonomy by the Hong Kong Government.
Within these limitations, priorities and anomolies the Hong Kong Government must:
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a) operate within the consent obtainable from its population.
b) Steadily improve the standard of living and contentment of its people.
c) Encourage the disparate elements of the largely immigrant population to form a tolerably homogeneous community in close contact with and having confidence in its Government.
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d) It is necessary to achieve both (a) and (c) without either the electoral mechanism or prospect of self-government normally available for such purposes.
e) To some extent both (a) and (c), and certainly (b) depend on maintenance of a reasonable rate of growth in the economy.
f) The whole must be managed with the minimum of financial or political cost to H.M.G.
The problem posed is unique. Rapid progress in its solution is desirable on its
but also because it will be to the
merits alone;
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