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TO IMMEDIATE F C O TELEGRAM NO 76 OF 22 JANUARY

INFO IMMEDIATE PEKING.

YOUR TELEGRAM NO 45 OF 20 JANUARY.

FOR HKD.

PARLIAMENTARY QUESTIONS: MR ROBERT PARRY M.P.

QUESTION 1:

PRESUMABLY MR PARRY, WHEN HE SPEAKS OF THE HONG KONG

GOVERNMENT IS REFERRING TO MATTERS WHICH HE RAISED WITH THE

SECRETARY FOR THE NEW TERRITORIES. THE SECRETARY FOR THE NEW

TERRITORIES WAS UNDER THE IMPRESSION THAT THE DISCUSSION WITH

THE GOVERNOR CN 16 SEPTEMBER 1976 DISPOSED OF THE MATTERS

WHICH HAD ARISEN DURING MR PARRY'S VISIT. MR AKERS-JONES WILL

WRITE TO MR PARRY DURING THE COURSE OF NEXT WEEK.

QUESTION 2:

ALL OUTSTANDING ISSUES CONCERNING ACQUISITION OF LAND AT TUEN MUN HAVE BEEN RESOLVED. THE ONLY CASE REFERRED TO THE LAND TRIBUNAL FOR ARBITRATION WAS THAT OF MR WONG HOK-YEE, IN WHICH THE ORIGINAL OFFER WAS DOLLARS 55,000, AND THE LAND TRIBUNAL AWARD WAS DOLLARS 67,400.

CUESTION 3:

CONSTRUCTION OF THE YUEN LONG SEWAGE TREATMENT WORKS IS IN FROGRESS. IT IS HOPED THAT THE PLANT WILL BE COMMISSIONED AT

THE END OF THIS YEAR.

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