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FEDERATION OF BRITISH INDUSTRIES,
21, Tothill Street,
London, S.W.1.
November 21st, 1944.
Our Ref. China 62.
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Miss A.M.Ruston,
The Colonial Office,
Downing Street, S.W.1.
Dear Miss Ruston,
I have pleasure in confirming the results of the conversation which Sir Frank Gill, Chairman of our Chinese Apprenticeships Committee, and I had with you and Mr.Keith, on the 17th instant, concerning the extension, as a temporary measure, of our Chinese engineering training scheme to selected Chinese engineering post-graduates of British nationality from Hong Kong University.
Sir Frank and I were very glad to have your assurance that, in order to meet the natural wishes of the manufacturers concerned with the training of these post-graduates, the Hong Kong Government would, as far as possible, ensure that they would obtain suitable employment on their eventual return to Hong Kong and would be enabled to rise to positions of responsibility in which they could influence directly or indirectly the purchase of British engineering plant. understanding, I am very glad to be able to inform you that my Committee entirely approves the extension of our training scheme to selected Chinese engineering post-graduates of British nationality from Hong Kong now resident in Free China.
On this
As regards the method of selection, I will inform the Foreign Office that, in this case, selection should be made by the British members only of the Selection Committee in Chung King, it being understood that the standard of qualification will be the same as for post-graduates of Chinese nationality.
As already explained, our normal procedure is first to ascertain what vacancies are available in works on this side and then to select the students to fit those vacancies. In the case of Hong Kong, I think we were agreed that the procedure should be reversed, in view of the small number of candidates. Selection will therefore take place first and vacancies will then
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