CO129-592-9 Future Policy in Hong Kong- Port Administration 13-1-1945 - 4-3-1946 — Page 151

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C.J. COLMAN, ESQ.,

DORCHESTER HOTEL,

PARK LANE,

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Dear Mr. Colman,

July -3'Juve, 1945.

We have now been able to give further

consideration to the arrangements for planning

the restoration and reorganisation of the

Hong Kong Harbour Services and the part which

we hope you will play in them. Our proposal now

is that with effect from some future date, to be

agreed later, you should be engaged to under take

the functions of Chairman designate of the

proposed Hong Kong Port Trust, and that in the

meantime you should act as Consultant for Hong

Kong Harbour Trust plans.

We envisage the 1st January, 1946, as the

probable date on which you would be needed for

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the full time post. But we feel that for the

present this should be regarded as as elastic

date. On the one hand operational developments

in the Summer and Autumn might make it

necessary for us to ask you to undertake the work as soon as you could be released from Iraq (e.g.

in November). On the other hand it might be

possible for you to take a further spell of leave after the 1st January before you take up

the Hong Kong appointment.

During the period when you would be acting

as Consultant we would propose that you should

receive a nominal fee of 100 gns. As from the

date of the full time appointment the salary

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