Registry HKK 6/548/6 DRAFT
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T. J. O'Brien, q
Finance Policy and
Aid Department.
From
W. S. Carter
Telephone No. & Ext.
Department
W(B)L 51-74 33
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we be using
services of
Hannam
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for this purpose. If
The information is hot available through Hormal banking
Channels, we might Consider putting a direct request to Ser J. Cowperthwaite (although whether e how
we do this must depend
wanting on our reason for
The information).
Thank you for sending me a copy of
Hannam's letter 6/6/2 dated 23rd January about
the Import Deposit Scheme. As you know,
Hannam also sent me a copy of his previous
letter on the same subject dated 21st January.
But unless we have mislaid it, I have not seen
your own letter.
2.
I think I ought to sound a note of
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warning here: indeed it is the same note which
Lunself Hannam sounds in the final paragraph of his
first letter. I am not sure where the
Patterson to whom Hannam refers stands in this
(as I think w the lose)
matter, but if/he is a servant of the Hong
Kong Government, then I imagine that there is
a possibility that the Government Treasury
will get to know of the enquiries you have
been making. If this were to happen I would
Svi J.
expect, Cowperthwaite to react quite
vigorously to the idea that we were asking for
this sort of information without going direct
to his Department.
Is there any way in which I can help
he United
or do you expect to get everything you want out of Patterson when he comes to the United
Kingdom? I see he is expected here at the
beginning of February
3.
4.
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I may say that we too should be very
interested to know about the impact of the
Import Deposit Scheme on Hong Kong, not so much