CO129-577-2 Financial assistance to Hong Kong Travel Association 15-4-1939 - 24-10-1939 — Page 17

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responsibility. The general conditions

now prevailing locally may be looked on

as suggesting that there are genuine well-

founded reasons for the relative failure

of the Association to attract support

from the commercial interests in the

on the poesial-time.

Colony

These circumstances will, it

may be hoped, be only temporary and the

confronting

problem concerning the Association may

reasonably be regarded as one of tiding

over the present difficult period. I

appreciate the useful work which such an

Association can perform te promote the

tent

numbers and amenities of visiting tourists

and I trust that it may be possible for

arrangements to be made for the Association to

continue as an unofficial body with some

minimum basis of financial support from

public funds, even though its activities

may

might be required to be reduced temporarily

I shall be obliged if you will endeavour

to