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COLONIAL SECRETARIAT.
HONG KONG.
16th March 1973.
To keep you in the picture on the McKinsey management exercise, I am enclosing herewith (in duplicate) a copy of a newsletter I have sent to Heads of Departments. I hope you will find it informative. I might add that I have had to tread rather warily as regards Chapter 4 as the Consultants further proposals (with which I largely agree) have already raised a lot of heat especially in financial quarters. To answer para.5 of your letter of 1st March, the proposals will probably result in some modification to the composition of Ex-Co., Leg-Co. and the Governor's Committee (as well as other committees) but nothing revolutionary.
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On para.4 of your letter, it is very gratifying to note that you are trying to tidy things up your end. The Consultants think that there must be more delegation to recruiting agencies in London (whether F.C.O., Õ.D.A., Crown Agents or the Hong Kong Commission) if we are to speed up recruitment and avoid losing potential staff. Incidentally, I have heard it said that if the Hong Kong Commissioner were to be given more responsibility for recruiting the F.C.O. or Crown Agents would be upset. Is this really so ?
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Али, Arike
( M.D.A. Clinton )
Deputy Colonial Secretary (SD)
A.C. Stuart, Esq., C.P.M.
Hong Kong & Indian Ocean Department,
Foreign and Commonwealth Office,
LONDON S.W.1.
Enclosure
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