Mr..
Hall
Mr....
Mr...
Sir
File No..........
Permt. U.S. of S.
Parly. U.S. of S.
X Minister of State X
Secretary of State
Your Reference....
Date.....
DRAFT S/O Letter
J. Greenhalgh, Esq.,
General Secretary,
I.T.G.W.F.,
120 Baker Street,
London, W.1.
Appaved by
几らしり Ministery state.
SM.28/4
(380)
Print Secuting, No. 10.
LAST REF.
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(For signature by Private Secretary to the
Prime Minister.)
The Frime Minister has asked me to reply to
your letter to him of the 6 April on the subject
of hours of work for women and young persons in
Hong Kong. I understand that you have since
discussed this matter with Mr. Foggon, Overseas
Labour Adviser, and that he has explained some
of the difficulties which exist in the particular
In your letter to circumstances of Hong Kong.
the Prime Minister you make it quite clear that
you consider that you have been deliberately
misled in this matter both by Mrs. Hart and by
Mr. Lee. The Prime Minister is most anxious that
this feeling should be dispelled.
Mrs. Hart has, I think, accurately explained
the situation, so far as she is concerned, in her
letter to you of the 7 April (written the day
after your letter to the Prime Minister);
and
FURTHER ACTION
Copy of this letter with copy of letter under reply for green folder and for HWB.18/6.
in your reply of the 10 April you accepted the
substance of her explanation. In fact, it appears
that Mrs. Hart was only one week out in her fore-
cast to you of the date of submission of the
relevant momorandum to the Hong Kong Executive
Council.
When Mr. Fred Lee met a delegation of your
British affiliates on the 21 June, 1966, he said
/that
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