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TELEGRAPHIC ADDRESS SECRETARY, HONGKONG?”

Govt., A.B.C. 5TH EDN.,&

BENTLEY'S 2ND PHRASE CODE.

AIR MAIL

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My dear Gerard,

COLONIAL SECRETARY'S OFFICE,

HONG KONG,

20th April, 1938.

An official despatch No.290 of the

6th of April has recently gone on the subject

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of a project which I am sure you will welcome,

that is the creation of a statistical organization

here. It is proposed to second a Cadet officer

Kelvin Stark for a few months to study statistics

particularly Government statistics. Kelvin Stark

has gone on leave via Canada and expects to reach

London in the latter part of July. I have asked

him to call on you as soon as he arrives in order

to discuss his exact programme of work and the

object of this is to serve as an introduction for

him.

He has been under me ever since my

arrival in charge of Estate Duty work and later

various other oddments of Inland Revenue and has

also given general assistance on various

particular questions including salary revision and

the note issue. I have no doubt that he is

temperamentally the right sort of man for statist-

ical work. He has already done several very

useful small jobs of a semi-statistical nature for

me and clearly has a natural interest in playing

G.L.M. CLAUSON, ESQ., C.M.G., 0.B.E.,

COLONIAL OFFICE,

LONDON.