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10 YOUR TELNOS 1620 AND 1621: VISIT BY MR LUCE

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Thank you for the programmes proposed in TURS. We have

consulted Mr Luce, who is happy with the programme for 25 13 September and with most of that for 28-31 October. He has

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however asked that we seek your views on two possible changes:

(a) Mr Luce would like to call on BTC and meet with Local

businessmen at a BTC reception. We wonder whether a lunch

17 hosted by the Senior Trade Commissioner might replace the lunch

which it was proposed be given by the Secretary for the Civil

Service on 31 October. Any civil service matters which you wish

to discuss with Mr Luce could perhaps be covered during your

meeting with him on 29 October. Cat which senior officials will be

present) or during the Chief Secretary's lunch on 30 October (to

which some young civil servants could perhaps be asked).

If you

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see no objection to this, grateful if you could put it to BTC.

(b) in view of the likelihood that the Home Office White Paper

replying to the SCORRI Report on Vietnamese Refugees will have 27 been published in late September, Mr Luce would like to visit a

28 closed refugee centre. His previous visits to Chi Ma Wan and

Kai Tak took place some two years ago. Mr Luce wonders if he

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