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Registry No.
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DRAFT LETTER
Type 1 +
SECURITY CLASSIFICATION
To:-
From
2
Top Secret.
Secret.
His Excellency Sir David
Trench, GCMG, MC,
W. S. Carter
Telephone No. & Ext.
Confidential.
Restricted. Unclassified.
PRIVACY MARKING
In Confidence
Government House,
HONG KONG
Department
On
HWBS 3/20
Ny Sedgwick, H.K.
Gart. Offin,
Commonwealth Gordination Dese
hear egret.
"ANG.
I must apologise for having taken so
long to write to you about the reorganisation
of the Hong Kong Government Office in London.
You reminded us of this matter just before your
return to Hong Kong and I promised to let you
know the position. I last wrote to you on this
subject in my letter HWB 3/20 of the 4th
October, 1968.
So far as the title of the Head
ad of the
reorganised Office is concerned, you will
recall that it was agreed at your discussions
here at the end of October that the proposed
title of "Administrative Commissioner for the
Government of Hong Kong in London" would be
suitable, and that this suggestion should be
provisionally accepted whilst you ascertained
to
reactions of it in Hong Kong. You will no doubt
it
let us know in due course whether there is any
local objection to the title.
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As regards the functions of the post
you explained that what you desired was an
extension of the existing arrangements whereby
present
the office Director has been in direct contact
with UK Departments and authorities over matters
of detail and/or explanation in dealings between
the Hong Kong Government and HMG. You may take
it that we would see no objection to these
arrangements being extended to include explora- tory talks on policy issues, provided that these