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have not got very far with the ideas you sketched
out for the future of primary school fees and we
should be very glad if you would keep us posted on how these develop. It is an interesting line of thought
that a registration fee might be substituted for a
school fee as such. It is not clear from what you say whether the registration fee' would be a once-and-
for-all payment on enrolment for primary education
or payable on transfer from one school to another or
an annual payment. There is perhaps a danger that
the last of these possibilities would be seized upon
and characterised
by critics
tics, as a subterfuge enabling the Government to for introduce free primary education in name only.
We were naturally very pleased to receive your
telegram No.242 telling us of your intentions (subject to developments) to release the remaining
detainees during the course of the next few weeks.
It will be of considerable help to us here and,
provided these thugs now behave themselves, I would hope that in Hong Kong it will be seen as one more indication of a return to "normality"
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Since my last letter of the 19th February, the
tunnel affair has been brought to a successful
conclusion, subject to the working out of final
details. We were not without our qualms about the
terms eventually used to define the political circumstances in which shareholders' guarantees would
be waived. But we have always envisaged that the letter of intent between Lloyds Bank and the Company (and any other document dealing with this question of political risks) would be shielded from public
disclosure. I trust that this will be the case.
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In Confidence
SECRET AND PERSONAL
DRAFT
LETTER
To:-
Miss West Plu Ilype as
fresh draft Los
His Excellency Sir David Trench,
G.C.M.G., M.C.
Government House,
HONG KONG
Sie
vernd draft.
Type 1 +
From
Sir Arthur Galsworthy
Telephone No. & Ext.
Department
I found your personal letter of 3 March most
interesting and would have sent you an earlier reply
twice
-
had I not been called away, to Anguilla the "cockpit
of the Caribbean"!
If I may say so, I think that your idea of
allowing the public freely into the Government House
gardens is an excellent one; the habits of the people
of Hong Kong in regard to the matter of litter appear
to be somewhat superior to our own.
We read your Budget Speech with considerable
interest. I am not surprised that there was general
satisfaction to learn that no increase in taxation
was necessary: this is a sort of satisfaction to which
we are strangers in this country! We were also
The intention interested in what you had to say about your desire to introduce a
System expand the Public Assistance programme. I realise
that it may be some time before you are ready with
more details of what you intend and also that you
are still considering whether you will call on us for
to approach us expert assistance. But if you do decide that you
would like the Ministry of Overseas Development to
for the services of recruit a suitable expert for you in this field, I
hope that you will be able to give them plenty of
warning. While I imagine that there are a good many
ed
Can be
-
men who consider themselves experts in this field, it
may not be possible to find one to suit your exact