TNAG-0798-FCO40-1002-Dispute-over-closure-of-Precious-Blood-Golden-Jubilee-Second-1978 — Page 17

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Hong Kong: MPs Letter: Mr Frank Hooley MP

Mr Frank Hooley MP (Labour Heeley) has written to Mr Luard

about the Precious Blood Golden Jubilee School dispute. He encloses Flag B letters from Mr Walter Easey, a former member of the Hong Kong Police,

who continues to take a close and critical interest in Hong Kong, and Flag C from Miss Fan and Mr Wai, the two representatives of the teachers at

the school currently in the UK to enlist parliamentary and public Flag D support. The attached background note describes the history of this

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Mr Easey has been helping Miss Fan and Mr Wai to make contacts in the UK and all three saw Mr McLaren and Mr Thompson of this Department on 7 July. They had asked for an interview with Lord Goronwy-Roberts but the Minister accepted the Governor's advice that it would be inappropriate for him to see them while the dispute was still under consideration by an independent Committee of Inquiry. The Committee's interim report was published on 14 July and Mr Easey was sent a copy to pass on to the teachers.

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The report did not seek to apportion blame for the dispute. Instead it concentrated on proposing a way out of the impasse that had been reached. The most important recommendation was that a second new school should be opened, under a new Management Committee, which would offer a system of education similar to that in the Golden Jubilee School under its original principal. Parents would be able to choose

whether to send their children to this new school or to St Theresas (the renamed Golden Jubilee School) under the more conventional system preferred by the principal in charge of the school at the time of its

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