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LETTER
To:-
Sir D. Trench, KCMG.,
MC.,
Government House,
HONG KONG.
Type 1 +
From
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Sir A. Galsworthy
Telephone No. & Ext.
Department
I ought to have written ages ago to thank you for
Thank you for your letter of 10 January
the final version of the
enclosing an Executive Council paper on the
legislative programme of the Labour Department, the earlier version of which I had seen in Hayy Kang. He have peed The paper with crest interest. And
ᎪᎵ;
The Department's full legislative
programme is more formidable than most of us
here thought, although we recall that when you
were on leave last year you mentioned that some
twenty to thirty pieces of legislation were in
the pipe-line. The size of it brings up again
the question prie ties beth within the
the.
programme itself and vis a vis the total
legislative requirements of other departments.
dive
I think we are agreed that it is important
to maintain steady progress on the labour front
to meet the challenge in the new phase of
and how our talks last communist confrontation; To this end some
Deseurber I knað that you
special priority may need to be given to labour
measures over the legislation of other
departments.
We know that these considerations
are very much in your mind, and that you will be
drafting and
keeping a close watch on the legislative
programme.
We were glad to see that in the departmental
list (which was to be reviewed on 25 January)
the new Employment Bill and the amendment of the
Workmen's Compensation Ordinance have a high
priority and that other items are included on
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