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During my visit to Hong Kong this week I had a session with Mr Day. I also attended a large lunch at which he and Mr Buchanan (British Council) addressed the British Chamber of Commerce, and a smaller lunch which Mr Day gave at the Albany for Sir M Palliser, who had just been in China on CBTG business.
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Mr Day had received before our meeting your letter of 10 December. He reacted positively to it, describing it as a useful steer, and promising a fuller comment when he had had time to digest it." He takes the same line in his manuscript letter given to me before I left Hong Kong (attached, for you only).
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On objectives, I do not think Mr Day will contest our redraft in any major way. On staffing, he still believes that building up his LE contingent is the first step. He aims to get all the new LE staff for which he currently has financial authority in place by about March, and thinks that he will then be better placed to judge the need for more UK-based staff (Comment: this should fit reasonably well with what I understand to be MRS' intention to visit around Easter: Mr Day has no problem with MRS reviewing current staffing levels as well as future build-up to the Consulate-General). But Mr Day still hankers after a new locally-engaged Admin Officer: a bid which we did not accept last time round. I said that he should make the case again in the local budget exercise next year.
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On commercial work, Mr Day was pleased that the dead-beat LEI Head of Commercial Section had been induced to resign, so saving £40,000 in redundancy payments. He maintained that statistics for commercial activity were now increasing well, and undertook to step up routine reporting.
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