REGISTERED No.
54002/40
DRAFT AND RECORD COPY
LETTER
SENT
DATE
67
10
DRAFT
MR. Pilbeam
4
MR...
Mouroh
MR...
Dew Rowen
For
coust
ENCLOSURES
FURTHER ACTION
(60).
Monsní
9 April, 1941.
For Mr.Toynton's signature.
Poynton (who is
moment) montured twe wi
covery
Sich at the
to
Turpin rang up a few days ago
ask whether we had yet heard anything from
Hong Kong about the building of inesweepers
in the colony. Your letter 3:33955/01 of the
•-*nt November, 1940, and connected correspondence
ience
refers to this question. lis that we had
Poynter explanes at the his
not, and as Sir Geoffry Northcote has only
with Turpes recently got back to the colony agreed to
a
wait two or three weeks before reminding him
bý telegram.
I permally
I have now taken the
opi
tunity
of consulting our dastern Department but who
ful
think that it
doubtful whether sip deoffry
To
T.L. ROWAN, ESQ.,
TREASURY.
44
Northcote
(6094) Wt. 25408—113 40,000 ea. 2 sorts 9/40 T.S. 695
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