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I have now prepared a draft reference Imperial Shipping Committee on the Hong Kong harbour development question, but before I
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(1) There is a good deal in the Notes of our Conference and some of the other papers which
we are sending to the Committee which is of a very confidential nature, and which it would be most undesirable to have made public. I do not know whether in the ordinary course the members of the Committee are expected to treat as confidential documents circulated to them for their consideration. If not, perhaps it would be well in this instance to indicate that this is desired.
(2) It will be necessary to have copied practically all the documents which are to be sent to the Committee, and unless we send sufficient copies for distribution to the members of the Committee (presumably they will) have to be recopied.
It would therefore seem more economical to have the
full number of copies which would be required prepared here in the first instance.
If you
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agree, I will speak to the Secretary of the Committee and ask him how many he will want. possible exception to this is the Consulting Engineers report of 1922. This is a very long
document and as it happens I recently obtained a
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