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Registry
No. HKK 6/540/3
SECURITY CLASSIFICATION
Top Sceret. Secret.
Confidential.
Restricted. Unclassified.
PRIVACY MARKING
..In Confidence
CONFIDENTIAL
DRAFT letter,
877
Type 1 +
To:-
M. P. V. Hannam, Esq.,
Shell House,
Queen's Road C,
HONG KONG.
From
52)
W. S. Carter
Telephone No. & Ext.
Department
Copy to be
placed on
GVV1/10/4
attached.
Thank you for your letter 40/2 of 13 June
about entry facilities for Hong Kong Chinese
visiting this country.
As you noted, procedures have been stream-
lined and there should now be a saving of about
fourteen days in dealing with applications.
This is not, however, because of anything Hong
Kong Special Branch agreed to do, but because
we at this end decided to dispense with routine
security checks in Hong Kong.
Migration and Visa Department are very keen
to discuss Collard's proposals for further
improvements in the system when he comes on
leave in September, and I hope that as a result
the time taken for processing applications can
be further reduced. It would be helpful, how-
ever, if Collard could reply to Mallett's letters
of 28 April and 16 May; at the moment we only
know that an improvement has taken place, but we
have no idea what instructions have been issued
in Hong Kong.
CONFIDENTIAL