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CONFIDENTIAL

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Lette: To palage to

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10 DOWNING STREET

From the Private Secretary

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Chay Clark

17 September 1979 189

Dear George,

Governor of Hong Kong

The Prime Minister has seen your letter to me of 13 September about the extension of Sir Murray MacLehose's appointment as Governor of Hong Kong. The Prime Minister is content that an announcement of the extension of Sir Murray's appointment should be made, as proposed in the final paragraph of your letter, before the end of this month.

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Yours ever

/293/67ous

RECAVID MY BY GO. Si !

24 SEP 1977

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Nichael Alexander

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G.G.H. Walden, Esq.,

Foreign and Commonwealth Office.

C.C.HKPF/MACLE HOSE/M.