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Registry
No. HWB 18/6
DRAFT
LETTER
To:-
Top Secret.
Type 1 +
3
From
39
Telephone No. & Ext.
Secret.
Confidential.
Restricted.
Unclassified.
J. GREENHALGH, ESQ.,
GENERAL SECRETARY,
I.T.G.W.F.,
120, Baker Street,
Lonon, W.1.
Department
Tih Cepind 1967.
(31)
I am sorry that you have not had an
earlier reply to your letter of 22 March about
hours of work in Hong Kong. Your letter has,
however, been awaiting my return from a visit
to New York, Bermuda and Bahamas.
t
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In regard to whe
said in the first at-
paragraph of your letter about our meeting of
16 February
I think that what I said/was that the
aid
Hong Kong Government proposed to disregard the
report of a Working Party consisting of
representatives of employers' organisations under
the Chairmanship of the Commissioner of Labour
which recommended against legislation for a further
reduction of hours at this time; and that it
proposed instead to support recommendations made
in a minority report, by the Commissioner of
Labour, to make statutory orders for reduced hours
of work in selected industries. I then went on to
say that the drafting of a memorandum for
presentation to the Executive Council was nearing
completion and that the memorandum would probably
be put to the Executive Council in about two
weeks' time.
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