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Appointments to Legco and Exco

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10 1978

1. You may wish to be aware of the attached telegram from

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Sir Denys Roberts to Sir Murray Maclehose about a new vacancy that will probably arise on Legco at the end of next month (and which may also lead to a further vacancy on Exco). This should provide the

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Governor with scope to move towards broadening the social base of UMELCO while maintaining all of his original recommendations: it will be interesting therefore to see what proposals he makes for filling these

I do not know anything about the two people

additional vacancies.

mentioned in paragraph 10. "Harilela" is presumably Mr H N Harilela UP, a businessman and presumably, to judge by his name, of Indian origin. I have not been able to identify a Miss Chang in any of the usual reference lists who would seem a likely Legco candidate.

18 July 1978

W E Quantrill

Hong Kong and General Dept

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