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50. D. B. Pitblado (Jay)
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— 1.8.16/189/02
tel. 1727
11-11-
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Please refer to Mr. Mayle's minute of
17th October.
Mr. Pitblado's reply (50) to Mr. Mayle's letter to him (49), referred to in that minute, came in on the 11th and was briefly discussed on the 12th when Mr. Mayle and I went over to the Treasury. to see Messrs. Pitblado and Serpell about the Hong Kong Salaries Commission Report.
The draft telegram opposite was prepared yesterday by Mr. Mayle and myself and, as he would be away from the Office to-day and there is some urgency in letting Hong Kong know the position (the Governor has reminded us at 51), Mr. Mayle asked me to put the papers up to you to-day for your preliminary consideration. Mr. Mayle will,
I think, be in the Office again to-morrow.
The draft telegram is, I think, self- explanatory. On further consideration, however, I have queried the sentence about C.D. & W. in paragraph 6, since restoration to 1941 scale can hardly include "development".
In discussion Mr. Pitblado said that he would see no objection to our taking up the proposal for a U.K. grant at Ministerial level, if we felt we should do this. So far as assistance from the U.K. for the larger project is concerned, we have accepted the necessity for shelving the matter (para. 1 of Sir Thomas Lloyd's letter of 23rd August to Sir Bernard Gilbert (40)). This would not necessarily preclude us from pressing the request for U.K. assistance towards rehabilitation up to 1941 scale. But the omens do not seem favourable and such pursuit, if unsuccessful, would only delay further a definite reply to Hong Kong on the present proposed lines.
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In discussion Mr. Pitblado. adverted to the point made in paragraphs 3 and 4 of his letter of 11th November whether the Colonial Office and the Governor are satisfied that restoration of the University to 1941 level is desirable from the point of view of Hong Kong. We assured him that this was the accepted view. We think that the closing sentences of the Secretary of State's minute below Sir Sidney Caine's minute of 15th August imply that this course should be followed as far as is practicable, and as concerns the Governor's views we have his specific statement to this effect in paragraph 2 of his telegram No.1592 of 9th October, (46).
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