En Clair
HONG KONG TO COMMONWEALTH OFFICE (D.T.D.)
Teino. U/N
30 September. 1967
UNCLASSIFIED
PRESS
301330 SITREP
Police last night and early this morning carried but searches on six (repeat six) Union premises and a resettlement estate in Tsuen Wan in New Territories. A number of documents were seized but no (repeat [? words emitted] made. Searches in border village at Lokmachau resulted in arrest of a store proprietor in possession of seven (repeat seven) pounds of fireworks. Apart from raids colony quiet. No (repeat no) bombs were found today.
Canadian businessmen are responding enthusiastically to Hong Kong Trade Mission now touring Canada.
Winnipeg and Edmonton both plan to organise own Missions to Hong Kong early next year, reported Mister Geoffrey Archer (repeat Geoffrey Archer), Head of Mission.
In Edmonton trade group received dollars seven (repeat seven) million worth of orders. Sample sale exceeded dollars one (repeat one) million.
Seventy (repeat seventy) enquiries received in Edmonton alone and trade possibilities were described by Mister Archer as ever stronger than at Calgary, which Mission also visited.
In Vancouver Mission received over four (repeat four) hundred enquiries. The Mission, first from Hong Kong to North America, continues to generate much business interest. In Toronto, members are booked for appointments throughout.
Hong Kong led Asian Commonwealth Nations in boosting sales to Britain during first eight months this year.
Hong Kong sales were up by nine (repeat nine) per cent, U.P.I. reported from London Friday Hong Kong's colour wireless television network tentatively set November nineteenth for its official opening.
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RECEIVED IN ARCHIVES No. 63
2 OCT1967