CO129-589-11 Port of Hong Kong- Report on future control and development 18-7-1941 - 10-10-1944 — Page 58

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Dear Mr. Kennedy,

I am sorry that I have not been able to let you have an earlier reply to your letter of the 16th May under cover of which you sent me a dreft of a letter which you proposed to send to the Dock and Harbour Authority regarding Sir David Owen's report.

We have no comments to make on the draft nor any objection to your sending it to the paper as you propose. Indeed if I may express a personal view, it seems to me right and proper, now that Sir David is no longer here himself to deal with criticism of this nature, for you to speak in his defence.

As regarda lire. Nicol's letter, we have received a good deal of information about persons in Hong Kong both from Professor Ride and

DUNCA KANN .DY, NO.

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