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Mr Morri

Morris

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29/9

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PRY

EGISTRY Goon Taken

FROM: P F Ricketts

Hong Kong Department

DATE: 27 September 1993

cc: For Action

Mr Bunten

Ms Saunders

Mr Whitney

GOVERNOR'S ADDRESS TO LEGCO

Information

Mr Hum

I have already distributed copies to all addressees of the

exerpts from the Governor's address sent to us from Hong Kong

1.

today. You will see that we are asked for comments by Wednesday

evening 29 September Hong Kong time. The draft is obviously

sensitive: please do not mention to others outside the

department that we have a copy.

2.

I propose to submit our comments to Mr Goodlad tomorrow

Grateful therefore for any points by 1100 on

28 September.

28 September. We must clearly target our comments carefully and

concentrate on the essentials if we are to make headway in

Hong Kong.

3.

At a quick first read, my thoughts were as follows:

In general it does not give us a major problem. The

address.PET.JRB

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