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DRAFT LETTER
To:-
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His Excellency Sir David
Trench, GCMG, MC.,
From
Sir Arthur Galsworthy
Telephone No. & Ext.
Government House,
Department
In Confidence
HONG KONG.
We were most interested in the report on
the City District Office Scheme which you
enclosed with your letter to me of 4th March.
It seems clear from the public's initial
reactions to the scheme which is admittedly still
in its early stages, that in addition to
that
encountering the inevitable teething troubles, And thire
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it is also meeting a definite need. Moreover,
must undoubtedly be in substantial benefits to the
there may be some unexpected bonuses in the form derived from the contacts and Consultation's out grass-rout of by produets resulting from the information lovel which are bequining to flow from the scheme which will undoubtedly become available as 8-
grass-root-
result of the innumerose rood contacts and
-discussions which are resulting from the scheme.
hand-picked
The provision of the necessary staff must
and I can wall appreciate
have been quite a headache, but you seem to have that I has made comicturable inroads on your oresom.cs. surmounted that particular obstacle with Bui- I am sure the sacrifice will be worth while and that
considerable success. In fact, I think that
The clividends will repay the careful mexterions work that great credit is due in particular to Holmes and Holmes Bray
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have thirty put in
and to any other Officers who had a hand in
to get the scheme off to a good start.
the matter. We should very much appreciate it
if we could, from time to time, be told how the
scheme is developing, what further snage it is
meeting and what successes it is registering.
We shall be showing the.
I intend to bring their report to Lord
Shepherd a notice on his return from the Caribbean.
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