(3) Defence: Responsibility for meeting:-
(a) extra military costs during confrontation;
(b) cost of border fence.
(4) Finance:
Minister wishes to consider with you the
employment of your reserves over the next few years
(this has been touched upon in conversation with
Cowperthwaite).
(5) Local Government:
Minister will wish to review with you
progress made in considering recommendations of Working
Party Report.
(6) Labour matters:-
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(a) staffing of Labour Department;
(b) hours of work of women and young persons;
(c) general state of industrial relations, including
protection of trade union rights, joint consultation and conciliation;
(d) report on social security.
Your plans for development of technical education:
Minister is particularly interested in suggestions advanced
by Herries for polytechnic institutions.
(8)
De-salination:
Minister would like to discuss with yoù
prospects for augmenting Hong Kong's water supplies by
this process.
(9)
Export Credit Guarantee Corporation:
Minister will wish
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to ascertain in discussion with you precisely what are
the needs of the Corporation in terms of information from
United Kingdom and posts abroad.
Transport Commission: Minister wants to explore with you
what additional powers and functions your Government may
need to assume in order to secure proper functioning of
public transport concerns in private hands.
Grateful to know as soon as possible whether there are any
additional matters which you would wish to raise.
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3. It is now almost certain that Minister and party will be
travelling to Hong Kong via Kuala Lumpur and not via Singapore
Kuala Jumpin as originally planned. As there is no flight from Hong Kong
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