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JURITY CLASSIFICATION
Top Secret.
Secret.
Confidential.
Restricted. Unclassified.
PRIVACY MARKING
In Confidence
DRAFT
SUBMISSION
To:-
Mr Wilford
Sir L Mons on
Mr Logan
Type 1 +
From
E O Laird
Telephone No. & Ext.
Department
Hong Kong
WORLD WIDE (SHIPPING) GROUP
REGISTRATION IN HONG KONG.
PROBLEM
mua than
ance
1. The United Kingdom Merchant Shipping Aet 1894, as
Lice
for
has
said
applied in Hong Kong, presenta difficulties
Mr Y K Pao of the World Wide (shipping) Group who,
this happ
providing satisfactory Conditions/can obtain, is
burthi
desirous of registering his/ships in Hong Kong The " the
Indiand it requik
that he would main obstacle now requiem in t
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m.
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letter ti
Ch. C.S.
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was originally is th in anin sorti Oh d
that
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engineers thr
Section 2(1) of the Hong Kong Merchant Shipping (Aliens insistence thin HoT cutification
ат нот Employment) Ordinance provides that no alien shall act nicke it
Videndy
pent
-as Master, Chief Officer of chief Beer of a British
eisterda
vreis
registerda ship of over 60
ite chattage I duck
marine engineers
tons
June
With some
with the required quafidian
justification Mr Pao claims that British personnel in
всі а wine I hi
to aman.
these capacities genot to redited in surfcient
Sal
be
So it. Hrugting colonia.
numbers and he requests a relaxation of the law.
BACKD
Permis has bem under considerdian
2. The first serious mention of this problem appears
Pari
but it
to have beer at a lunch for Mr Pao given by Mr Royle Merch April thin in September 1970.
that it
sinde Hang Kang
hue alle
then there have
6. deicul the it will
exchanges of correspondence between Foreign and
m Pao.
Pases of
usufel fem
تان
Commonwealth Office and the Coldni
The Coldhigh Secret
positin try, Hong Kgng, between Mr Royle and fra (vid Mr Lee, the вей
В Рос
latters representative in London) and then the
Colonial
Bretarytong kong
nial secretary fitong Kong and Mr Pao
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Various
Wifi H. N-wi
related issues such
Issues such as tonnage assessment,
of connage
crow
accommodation, fire lighting and life saving equipment
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/and radio