CO129-589-17 Evacuation of British families 14-1-1941 - 27-11-1941 — Page 22

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secured during their leave in Australia work on shipbuilding there and even if the Australian Government and the Dominions Office make a case for their retention in Australia?

I imagine the same sort of problem affects the staff of the Hongkong & Whampoa Dockyard Company, which has a similar programme of Government work and a similar sized European staff.

I am sending a copy of this to Sir Amos Ayre at

the Admiralty.

Yours sincerely,

C.E.J. Gent, Esq., C.M.G.,

The Colonial Office, S.W.1.

Rhain-

J. R. Masson)

(Copy to Sir Amos Ayre, Director of

Merchant Shipbuilding)