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HONG KONG
NO
247
sir,
Colonial Office,
Downing Street,
3. M.1.
1 August
Anoid (11)
1947.
Appointment of a Registrar of Co-operatives
I have the honour to refer to Sir Mark Young'
staff despatch No.43 of the 10th of March 1947 on the
subject of the appointment of a Registrar of
00-operatives within the framework of the Development
Secretariat.
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2. I welcome the proposal of the Hong Kong
Government to develop and extend co-operation in the
Colony, and I agree that an officer should be appointed
to undertake the duties of Registrar of Co-operatives.
I assume that it is intended to establish a separate
sub-Department of Co-operation within the Development
Secretariat. As regards the status of the post of
Registrar of Co-operatives ▼ consider that it should
appropriately rank as equal to that of Director of
Fisheries.
3. The proposal that an expert on Co-operation
should be seconded to Hong Kong for one or two years to
inaugurate the new Sub-Department and advise on the
staff required to run it permanently has been carefully
considered by my Advisers on Development and
Co-operation, and has been discussed with the
Co-operative *holesale Society. As a result of these
discussions I am advised that, spart from the fact that
it is most unlikely that the Co-onerative Organisations
in this country would be able to provide a suitable
officer
GOVERNOR
SIR ALEXANDER ORANDA, 7.C.LO.,