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布政司署
香港下亞
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Dear Robin,
畢道
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GOVERNMENT SECRETARIAT
LOWER ALBERT ROAD
HONG KONG
6th April 1982
DA
My duty visit in May is now more or less
settled between arrival on 15th May and departure on Wednesday 2nd June. The programme is already fairly tightly packed but I should like to see you if this is possible. My most flexible dates are Thursday and Friday, the 20th and 21st of May. I have a number of miscellaneous visits pencilled in for the 20th pending the possibility that I could visit you on that day too. Alternatively I hope to be at the Institution of Metallurgists AGM next morning at the Royal Society and that might give us an opportunity to meet over lunch later or early on the Friday afternoon. If neither of those dates are possible I could manage short periods during the following week although I am mainly concerned with visits to National Physical Laboratory, National Maritime Institute and BSI and therefore some distance from town. Again, Friday 28th in the morning may be a little more flexible.
Could you let me know what you guess might be more convenient and I will see how good a fit we can make ?
I do not have any specific topic to discuss with you apart from comparing notes on our two positions. The Science Adviser's post in Hong Kong Government is a new one at a senior level but on a consultancy basis for the time being. Essentially, my main task is to recommend any necessary re-structuring of science, technology and even perhaps engineering affairs in Hong Kong Government and improve the liaison between Government, the tertiary education institutions, the industrial support organizations and the private sector. There is also a substantial technical advisory role for which purpose I chair an Advisory Committee on Science and Industrial Research which, in turn, acts as the executive of a referee and consultancy network.
There is a topic for some future thought. Hong Kong still relies on overseas technical advice. For a number of reasons the United Kingdom could continue to have a strong influence on this advice. However, there appears to be little coordination between Hong Kong scientific and technical needs and the U.K. You will see from the enclosed cutting that more conventional consultancy work in Hong Kong