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LABOUR DEPARTMENT
LEE GARDENS
HYSAN AVENUE
CAUSEWAY BAY
HONG KONG
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香港銅鑼灣希慎道利園大廈
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OUR REFERENCE: LAB/CR 1/1/702 本處檔案編號
28 October 1977
Re
PERSONAL
J.A.B. Stewart, Esq., OBE,
Hong Kong Department,
Foreign & Commonwealth Office,
London SW1A 2AH,
United Kingdom
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Sean John,
No
Professor Turner's Papers
حكة
Having seen your telegrams 779 and 796, I am sure your office would wish to have some background to explain what would otherwise appear to be a deviation from our record of helpfulness to Professor Turner.
Just before he left Hong Kong in late September, we agreed to send his confidential working papers and drafts back to the United Kingdom by Diplomatic Bag. The main responsibility for delay in despatch seems to rest on Dr. Fosh (his assistant from Bath University) who, against the advice of Mr. NG Sek-hong (a departmental officer specially assigned to work for Professor Turner), sent a number of packages to this department rather than to the Government Secretariat officer responsible for despatching papers by Diplomatic Bag. Professor Turner has been in the habit of leaving parcels and other articles in this department's stores during his visits here, and since Dr. Fosh did not indicate specifically that these parcels were to be sent back to the U.K., they were retained by the Storekeeper here pending instructions.
Professor Turner has written to NG Sek-hong asking him why he had not sent off the papers. And NG has replied saying that the parcels were left here against his advice and without specific instructions so that Professor Turner had really no one to blame but himself or Dr. Fosh.
When steps were taken to get this sorted out the parcels turned out to be very heavy and too large for the Diplomatic Bag. a result they had to be broken out into smaller parcels before despatch.
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