CO129-582-3 Proposed reorganisation of government printing arrangements 12-5-1939 - 8-11-1939 — Page 2

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Sir

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Submits proposals for re-organization of

printing arrangements.

Under the present printing arrangements in HK. the

bulk of the printing

is done

by prisoners in the

Stanley Gaol

the reste by

Messrs. Noronha & Co.,

who have been closely

associated with Sost for

many years. Occasionally

odd jobs

are tendered

out to other commercial printers.

It has now been agreed in principle that the

work should be removed from the Prison,

printing

Why

incidentally

the machiny is

is not be

& the Sou

to anything like its full capacity,

of being word

that this pinting work should in some

suggest

way

be amalgamated

rated with the work undstaken.

by

Mesps. Noronha.

Of the three possible ways of effecting this

amalgamation, the low. favors the transfer to

Noronha of the best. machining in exchaup for a

share in a reconstituted.

Company.

No procedent

appens to exist in other colonies for this anaujument,

but the Fod. ases for approval of the principle.

Details would

naturally

han to be worked out later.

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As far

as I can tell I should think that thins