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From the Governor, Hong Kong
To the Secretary for Technical Co-operation of States for the Colonies
Repeated to:-
Repeated to:
...ate
28th September, 1967.
My Reference.
SCR.2/5)-II
Your Reference...
No.
No.............
No.
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Subpara. (e) of your telegram 1964 refers.
Essential Food Supplies
The immediate urgency of the need to consider rationing ems has now been reduced in view of developments in the situation in Hong Kong. We are, however, proceeding with consideration of the problems arising out of the possible introduction of a rationing schome in various basic commodities and have a number of points on which we should welcome expert advice.
2.
However, we are not, at the moment, in the position to make available any expatriate officer, with the necessary experience, for so long as a month to come to London to undertake the training envisaged in your telegram. We should, however, like to take advantage of the fact that Mr. G.C.M. Lupton, an Administrative Officer, Staff Grade C, who has been a member of the Emergency Food Control Committee since it was set up in June, will be arriving in London on lcave at the end of October, and to request that he should be given the opportunity to discuss with the experts concerned, the various points of difficulty which have arisen in our own investigations into possible rationing schemes. On the basis of a report from Mr. Lupton on his discussions, we can then consider the possibility of sending another officer for an extended period of training at a later date.
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