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COLONIAL SECRETARIAT,

RECEIVEL

16 AUG.347

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LOWER ALBERT ROAD,

HONG KONG

8th August, 1947.

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Thank you for your letter of 14th July about the Dairy Farm.

I can well believe they are a source of trouble to the Defence

Security Officer. They repeatedly ask for permission to import more aliens

and have made five such requests since March. Their general reason for

doing so is that clean milk can only be produced by Europeans, and the only

Europeans who will work for the salaries they offer are stateless Russians,

etc. At the present time, entry is being refused to such persons as do not

possess a re-entry permit to the place from which they came; and in the

recent cases mentioned, entry visas were refused for two stateless Russians

and one Italian who were intending to work with the Dairy Farm,

I think their solution in present circumstances is to pay

better salaries which they can well afford, having just had an indecently

prosperous year.

The Defence Security Officer had already mentioned his doubts

to us and we are inclined to share them.

A. N. Galsworthy, Esq.,

Colonial Office,

Downing Street, LONDON, S. W. 1.

Yours sincerely,

싸

Int.

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