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Permt. U.S. of S.
Parly. U.S. of S.
Minister of State
54
Secretary of State
Your Reference.......
Date 26 April 1967
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I am very sorry indeed that I have not
been able to reply earlier to your letter of
10 April about hours of work for women and young
persons in Hong Kong.
I am also dismayed that you were
bitterly disappointed with the contents of my
letter of 7 April at but I can assure you that
neither I nor Fred Lees had any intention
whatsoever of misleading you in this matter.
In
Cobviously there have been misunderstandings.
the second paragraph of my letter of 7 April,
which you have since accepted as a substantially
accurate account of what I told you at our
meeting on 16 February, I said that the relevant
memorandum would probably be put to the Hong Kong
Executive Council in about two week's time. In
the event it was put to Executive Council on 7
March less than three weeks from the date of
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our meeting. You have rightly pointed out that
the proposed amending legislation does not
apparently extend to garment workers. But what
meeting was we were, in fact, discussing at our/was the hours
(im indisting of work for women and young persons, generally.
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