need to go ahead quickly with steps to find replacements. 5. I think it would be most helpful both to you and ourselves if you could send us drafts of the more important pieces of legislation at quite an carly stage. We have in mind particularly legislation on industrial relations, e.g. illegal strikes and lock- outs (item (vi) in the Executive Council paper). On some measures consultation could, we feel, be most useful even before drafting instructions are finalised; we think, for example, that we might have a useful contribution to make on the apprenticeship legislation an! would welcome at an appropriate stage a statement of your policy in this matter (it would appear that this is still under consideration by the Industrial Training Advisory Committee). 6. Finally, I should mention how glad we are that it was possible to obtain Executive Council's blanket approval for the prograrme in terms which made it practicable to give some publicity to it. Ne were very glad to see how well the statement to Legislative Council was received by press and public in Hong Kong. The Department of Labour has, we know, been under a lot of severe and largely unmerited criticism in the past to which no real answer could be made in the absence of policy approval for their legislative programme.
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When you are here after Easter we would very much like to review with you just how things are moving.
(A.N. Galsworthy)