CONFIDENTIAL
OUTWARD TELEGRAM
FROM THE COMMONWEALTH OFFICE (The Secretary of State)
TO HONG KONG (0.A.G.)
Cypher
IMMEDIATE
Sent 26 July, 1967.
CONFIDENTIAL
No. 1544
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HWB 13/22
23052
Your telegram No. 1073.
Following from Hong Kong Chinese Liaison
Office and London Office.
Exhaustive inquiries have revealed no grounds to substantiate your paragraph 1. There was a fall-off in restaurant trade towards end 1966 but this is thought to be due to freeze. A slightly more-pronounced fall-off during last two months is probably due to warm summer and holiday season. We do not (repeat not) consider posters to be necessary or desirable.
2.
For past two months Hong Kong Bank here has been studying figures of restaurant remittances, In May these amounted to £50,000 by way of individual remittances to Hong Kong: figure dropped to £40,000 in June and is expected to be about the same for July. Decrease on May figure is again thought to be due to holiday season.
LAST
REF
BEA
REF.
Distribution- H.K. W.I.D. 'C'
Copies also sent to:
Mr. H.T. Woo,
Hong Kong Government Students Office,
Abbey House,
2/8 Victoria Street,
S.W.1.
Mr. P. Sedgwick,
Hong Kong Government Office,
54, Pall Mall,
S.W.1.
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