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CONFIDENTIAL

(PR 3737/9/913)

12/15, Carlton House Terrace,

LONDON, S.W.1.

9th December, 1949.

(43)

Dean Blackburne,

I refer to your letter reference 96038/1(15)/49 of 1st December, about the new terms of reference of the Regional Information Office Representative in Hong Kong.

As far as we are concerned, we find this revised edition entirely acceptable.

General.

I assume you will notify the Commissioner-

As you know, we are still having difficulty with the Treasury about this post, but we are pressing them very hard on the instructions of the Ministers concerned in the Colonial Information Policy Committee, and I hope to be able to report success very shortly.

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Colonial Office,

Ralph Janmay

K. W. Blackburne, Esq., C.M.G., O.B.E.,

Sanctuary Buildings,

Great Smith Street,

S.W.1.

H.453.

Pc. g.

and pads

Beattie

Mition

2

for

12.11.$9,