THE WELFARE LEAGUE
同仁
Registered address:
會
Rr. 5608 Hopewel Centre, 183, Queen's Road Est, Hong Kong.
Honorary President
Dr Cougks Laing, F.R.C.S., F.A.C.S., J.P.
Honorary Vice Presidents
Dr S. V. Gittins, O.B.E., QC, LLD.
Peter Hall, Esq, F.C.A
Dr C. J. Symons, C.B.E., LL.D.
General Committee
E.P. Ho, Esq.. C.B.E., J.P. (President) LC. Kotewall, Esq. (Vice President) Michael Tse, Esq. (Hon Treasurer) Miss J.A. Wille (Hon Secretary)
S.M. Chum, Esq., E.D.
J.C. Fenton, Esq.
Kenneth Lo, Esq., O.B.E., J.P.
S.J. Lowcock, Esq., M.B.E., J.P. P. Stoppa, Esq.
Frank S.H. Wong Esq.
Dean & Rencie.
Please reply to:
RECEIVED 3 1 MAY 1990
6 Lloyd Path,
The Peak,
22 May 1990.
Hong Kong
BRITISH NATIONALITY (HONG KONG) BILL 1990
CLAUSE TO PROVIDE SPECIFICALLY FOR DESCENDENTS OF 2RITONS
Commons,
The Hong Kong Bill will soon be passed by the House of to the House of Lords for and it will then come consideration. We fear that the 2111 which will be presented to you will not make any specific provision for
domiciled here, some no of our community prime, but all descended from British stock.
2. Why are there only a handful
the handful longer in their
there
of us left after 150 years impermanence of British Rule? It is simply that many saw the of Hong Kong as a British Crown Colony in the post World War are few Accordingly, II era of de-colonisation. Eurasian, or Anglo-Chinese, families which do not have one or more of their members settled in one English-speaking country
they have been or another where
easily assimilated - in Britain, Canada, Australia, New Zealand or the United States.
and the ensuing
3. The 1000 or so of us who have opted to remain, including those no longer in our prime, have largely done so with our in the sense that we hoped the Sino-British Joint eyes open,
events of June Declaration would work as envisaged. But the 1989 in Beijing,
repression in China, has changed all that. Apart from those among us who have British the remainder all fear the or some alternative citizenship,
protection of a home of last We trust the House of Lords citizenship will recognise our case for the grant of British under this Bill - not only for those in their prime.
worst without any possibility of British consular
the fall-back after 1997, and
without
resort in the United Kingdom.
4.
The Eurasian or Anglo-Chinese community here will be the section of the population most at risk when Hong Kong reverts to China in 1997, because:
a.
Our
blood
links with the former Britain, make us a continuing
Colonial Power, reminder of the blot
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