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No. HKK 18/4
DRAFT
LETTER
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Secret.
Confidential,
Restricted.
Unclassified.
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...In Confidence
To:-
His Excellency
Sir David Trench, GCMG., MC.,
Government House,
Hong Kong
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Type 1 +
From
Sir Arthur Galsworthy
Telephone No. & Ext.
Department
It stuck us all here how the
start as a
highly imaginative, scheme;
We were/most interested in the report on the
City District Officer Scheme which you enclosed with
Thank your letter to me of 4 March.
you very much indeed for your thoughtfulness in letting me have a copy.
It seems clear from the public's initial reactions
it
to the-geheme that it is meeting a definite need.
And there must undoubtedly be substantial benefits to
be derived from the contacts and consultations at
grass-root level which are beginning to flow, from the
setreme The provision of the necessary hand-picked
staff must have been quite a headache, and I can well
Sele appreciate that it has made considerable inroads on
your resources.
But I am sure the sacrifice will be
worthwhile and that the dividends, will repay the careful & omnisly very skilled & intellyint
careful meritorious work that Holmes, Bray and others
So
Officers have clearly put in to get the scheme off to
a good start.
We shall be showing this report who will, I know, a pearly interested in it. If there are on his return from the Caribbean
to Lord Shepherd
He will, I am sure,
greatly appreciate further periodic reports on how the
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scheme is developing, we should
any
mush
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to have them.
ANS
24/8/69