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Mr. Michael Foot, M.P., House of Commons,

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17 High West,

142 Pokfulam Road, HONG KONG.

22nd February, 1978.

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LONDON, SW1A OAA.

Dear Mr. Foot,

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I wrote to you from Ebbw Vale at the end of last September and received a reply from your secretary dated 6th October, 1977.

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The point at issue in my first letter was not to involve personally my husband's nephew and certainly not to attempt to obtain preferential treatment for him (which is why I did not give his personal details in my first letter), but to question the attitude of Labour Party politicians who come to Hong Kong for a short visit and upon departure are only too willing to criticize adversely the social welfare in Hong Kong.

I do apologise for the lengthy delay in my answering your secretary's letter but we left Britain in the middle of October and have not long been back in Hong Kong.

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I appreciate that it might be helpful to have the name of my husband's nephew in order to know all the aspects of the situation, but I do sincerely trust you do not assume I am writing to you just in the hopes of his obtaining preferential treatment. His name is: Stephen Powell; his address: 8 Harford Square, New Town, Ebbw Vale;. and the hospital concerned is Neville Hall, Abergavenny.

I very much look forward to hearing from you.

Yours sincerely,

Deborah M.K. Hodgkiss

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