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By John Walton Masters
Left for Hong Kong Airport uncertain if Cathay Pacific had cancelled our tickets. Found on arrival at Kai Tak that they plane had space we managed to
had, but as reservations. statement.
restore our A number of press at airport. Given the following
Association of Expatriate
The visit
Four senior officials of the Civil Servants left Hong Kong today for Beijing. is at the invitation of the All China Federation of Trade Unions. During the four day visit they will hold talks with officials of the Hong Kong and Macau Office on matters of concern to expatriates in Hong Kong in genera), and civil servants in particular.
The delegation is expected to meet Mr Ji Peng Fei and Mr Lu Ping before returning on Friday afternoon.
The four are the President, Mr John Walton Masters, the Vice President Mr Mike Rowse, the Immediate Past President Mr John Lambourn who is also a member of the Basic Law Consultative Committee, and the Chairman of the Agreement Service Committee Mr Arthur Watson.
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Jardines laid on B.A. Executive Suite for us at Airport which was good of them. Had a good flight to Beijing. On arrival saw CAL 747 parked. (This was the one involved in the Hi-jacking incident). Airport luggage handling not marvellous but got our suitcases eventually. Were met by Mr. WANG Yu-miu the Council member of the Chinese Workers Centre for International (CWCIE) on behalf of the All China Federation of Trade Unions who Exchange are our hosts. He is a retired 'worker' on a 100% pension who is called in to do work for the ACFTU. With him was Mr CIU Au-yeung an ex-teacher of English who was to act as our interpreter during the visit. A mini-bus and driver laid on as our transport.
permanent Found that our accommodation was to be upgraded (at our expense as we were paying!) and we are now Beijing Toronto Hotel which is under Japanese management.
to stay at the hotel.
A new In spite of looking like a first class hotel we still had to carry our bags to our room. Cost of room $800 per night each without breakfast (£66.50). Talked about our programme and asked if we could take the officials of the Federation to dinner. need
"No we are workers together. Anyway we have booked you dinners on
for both Wednesday and Thursday
Thursday nights". Rooms like
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