CONFIDENTIAL.
Telephone Nos.
REGENT 6050.
WHITEHALL 6789.
SF.94/4/5(68)B. 3b.
Dear
Bumpers,
4433/1/46
3154/1
BOX
No. 500,
PARLIAMENT
STREET B.O.,
LONDON, S.W.1.
VED
17
28th April, 1947.
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As you know, "The Dairy Farm, Ice and Cold Storage Co. Ltd.", Hong Kong, operates a large farm and has virtually a monopoly of the fresh dairy produce of the Colony. imports from Australia frozen meat, game and dairy produce.
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It also
D.S.O. Hong Kong informs me that the Company employ on their farms seven stateless Russians, one Ukrainian and one German, and have hinted that they will shortly be applying for permission to bring in other Stateless persons from Shanghai to assist with their rapidly increasing business.
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When applying for permission to bring in aliens, the Company always state that they have a good knowledge of Dairy farming, that Europeans are better farmers than Chinese, and that employment and accommodation are guaranteed. On the other hand, there is no guarantee of perpetual employment, and two other Stateless Russians have recently left the firm's employment and taken other jobs in the Colony. D.S.C. points out that though it may be necessary to allow the entry of persons who can assist in the rehabilitation of the Colony, the fact that none of these aliens has a re-entry visa to Shanghai or anywhere else, and that if any of them should become undesirable they cannot be deported, is somewhat dis- turbing from the security point of view.
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I am told that there is a large number of young people, some of them agricultural workers, who wish to emigrate to Hong Kong from the U.K., and it has occurred to me that the Dairy Farm Company should be made aware that such prospective employees are available. It seems desirable that a British firm with British capital should employ
/British subjects
C. Burgess, Esq., Colonial Office.