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Mr Wixford
PS/Mr Røyle
HONG KONG REGISTER OF SHIPPING
1. On my submission of 30 April, Mr Royle drew attention to
Mr Y K Pao's resentment that other ship owners were being con-
sulted.
2. At Mr Heseltine's meeting in Hong Kong, the Hong Kong ship
owners present, apart from Mr Y K Fao, were representatives of
CY Tung, Butterfield & Swire, Jardines, the Wah Kwong Company,
(who are mainly agents for American ship owners) and a single
representative of the Hong Kong Ship Owners Association None
(except, indirectly, the bast)
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of these represent Taiwanese or mainland Chinese interests.
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According to Mr Heseltine's Private Secretary, the most helpful
person, from the British point of view, was the representative
of the Wah Kwong. If Mr Y K Pao objected to the views expressed
by other ship owners at the meeting, it may therefore be thats because
his fellow Chinese did not ask for as much as he did.
Alternat-
ively, the difficulty, from his point of view, may have come
from Jardines and Butterfield & Swire. Mr Herries told me soon
after the meeting in Hong Kong that the two companies, with
their extensive UK links, shared some of the worries of the
British ship owners. If they expressed to Mr Pao their doubts
about the desirability of the Hong Kong Register, he might
indeed have resented their representatives' presence at the
meeting with Mr Heseltine.
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