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Mrs E T Gregory

Deputy Governor's Office

Hong Kong and General Department Foreign and Commonwealth Office

Dear Mrs. Groqury,

Government House, Bermuda

20 September, 1978

HKA 431/7

RECEIVED IN REGISTRY NO. 51

2 5 SEP 1978

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LIST OF SENIOR BRITISH EXPATRIATE OFFICERS SERVING IN DEPENDENT TERRITORIES

Many thanks for your letter of 8 September.

2. Richard Hand wrote (to Doggett) on 6 April, expressing surprise that Bermudians had been included in a list of "Senior British Expatriate Officers". He never had a reply; and I do not, therefore, know whether their inclusion was an oversight, or whether the list has been given an inaccurate title.

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However that may be, the position is that, since your February 1978 list was published:

(a)

there has been no change in the Civil Establishment (Governor, Deputy Governor and Administrative Secretary);

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(d)

Mr Astwood remains Chief Justice, but is a Bermudian, as Mr Hand said;

Mr Seaton is no longer Puise Judge. In his place there are two (acting) Puisne Judges, Mr Hector Barcilon, CBE, and Mr W N H Robinson, both of whom are Bermudians;

there has been no change in the membership of the Court of Appeal though, as Mr Hand stated, Professor Telford Georges is not U.K. domiciled: he lives at present in Barbados, but is, I think, probably domiciled in Trinidad;

the Solicitor General is now a Canadian, Mr Saul Froomkin, QC - I am not sure whether you will wish to include him.

(e)

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I find the list interesting, principally because I know, personally, many of the people listed, and am glad to learn what has become of them; but I cannot pretend that it is really necessary.

So if you

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