get a first-rate man and can in

do without one;

can be

%

it is

implied that the D. & C. I.

any case high-powered

a liver calible than a

Economic Secretary. I should have thought

Hong Kong

was pre-eminently a place where

might

economic advice

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well rust

first rate, and that be given suggestion therefore ammunts

to n

subbing along without economic advice of the bype Eve had. in mind in (9) and in the mintis

15314/66/49 (Part III), and

Advisory Board

memorandum:

relying instead on the porpored in her. Hinsworth's that is, mainly

influential interests, commercial a

are

a voice

who as it is

too big policy

the

banking,

sometimes said to have

in the framing of Govt. "

Hong Kong.

In

not put his viives fonowd

plenty of

& leaves

them; but in organisation of

does

Hermer as unalterable,

room to controvst

a redatter touching

his

we should not,

9

to

press

m

his own, creside

take it

him a

and

the

governmental machine thinks, nounally with different breed from higher authority

Exmonic Secretary

unters

it imperative to do that the idea of

an

proper will now be shelved.

3

I

On that assumption there remains the second question. If

Director

1

Dept. is

innot

the vacant post of

muice and I.

This

out the fuller

yet carrying on thing worth

fundines invisaged

morandum, and indeed recruitment

for the new

post of Assistant (Industry)

the filling of which would have been a first step towards the in

auguration

these functions, has just bud deferred measude of economy

La

see (7). But the be carefully chosen. 2. Kelvin Stark have

Director will need to be Markers her. Morris

to their observalines on

to add to

prodidle anything to

outride candidates (their minutes of 1/11

15314/66/49), the only alternative to waiting for the Govemen

and 4/11

on

to address us

further above In. Thomson seems to be

مان

could

there is

Ju

be

anyme

Suitable who

be transfered from another

In. Mackintosh would

about that, but

Colony.

be able to tell us

I does not

sum a

very

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