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2 Sanctuary Buildings, Great Smith Street,

London, S.W.1.

H2 August, 1948

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Dear John,

I think you will be glad to have the following extract from a letter I have just received from D. Keith Hardy in Hongkong:-

"Would you please ring up J.B. Clark or someone high up in the Corporation and tell them how enormously the B.B.C. Transcription Service is appreciated in the Colony. I have often mentioned this to Ivor Thomas, Irene Elford, and Eastwood. I cannot tell you the enormous difference it makes to programme planning when all the time you feel that at your finger-tips you have the finest talks, music, plays and features ready for immediate use, especially in a place like Hong Kong, which is an intellectual and cultural vacuum!!

Yours sincerely,

Dr.

(0.J. Whitley)

Information Department.

J. GRENFELL WILLIAMS, ESQ.,