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secured during their leave in Australia work on shipbuilding there and even if the Australian Government and the Dominions Office make a case for their retention in Australia?
I imagine the same sort of problem affects the staff of the Hongkong & Whampoa Dockyard Company, which has a similar programme of Government work and a similar sized European staff.
I am sending a copy of this to Sir Amos Ayre at
the Admiralty.
Yours sincerely,
C.E.J. Gent, Esq., C.M.G.,
The Colonial Office, S.W.1.
Rhain-
J. R. Masson)
(Copy to Sir Amos Ayre, Director of
Merchant Shipbuilding)