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• COLONIAL SECRETARIAT
LOWER ALBERT ROAD
HONG KONG
布政司署
香港下亞
畢道
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Dear Andrew,
20th November 1973
We are beginning to think how we can replace Norman Rolph, our Narcotics Commissioner, when he retires at the end of next year or early 1975.
One suggestion is James Norman, who was
Commissioner of Prisons here until his retirement in 1968. Since then we understand that he has worked for O.D.A. and on a number of assignments for the U.N., the most recent being in Iran. However, it is understood that he may have had social problems even while he was still in Hong Kong and that these may have continued in his subsequent jobs. Another possible candidate, suggested by Tom Garner our present Commissioner of Prisons, is Richard Tufnel, who works in the U.N. Division of Narcotic Drugs at Geneva. If you can get us any information on the recent performance of either of these candidates we shall be most grateful.
Alan Scott and I discussed this appointment briefly with Pat Kelly and she had a feeling she had come across or heard about James Norman, possibly while she was in Singapore.
Yours sincerely
Ron
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We will find out what we can about
the garthamar you mention and let you know.
gentleman
This may take a
while
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your needs youthere you will but me
A.C. Stuart, Esq.,
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Foreign & Commonwealth Office,"
London, S. W. 1,
England.
Home Office confidentally and unofficially whether they have any my Jestions?
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