CO129-611-5 Development Secretariat- appointment of registrar of Co-operatives 10-3-1947 - 10-3-1948 — Page 48

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HONG KONG

NO

247

sir,

Colonial Office,

Downing Street,

3. M.1.

1 August

Anoid (11)

1947.

Appointment of a Registrar of Co-operatives

I have the honour to refer to Sir Mark Young'

staff despatch No.43 of the 10th of March 1947 on the

subject of the appointment of a Registrar of

00-operatives within the framework of the Development

Secretariat.

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2. I welcome the proposal of the Hong Kong

Government to develop and extend co-operation in the

Colony, and I agree that an officer should be appointed

to undertake the duties of Registrar of Co-operatives.

I assume that it is intended to establish a separate

sub-Department of Co-operation within the Development

Secretariat. As regards the status of the post of

Registrar of Co-operatives ▼ consider that it should

appropriately rank as equal to that of Director of

Fisheries.

3. The proposal that an expert on Co-operation

should be seconded to Hong Kong for one or two years to

inaugurate the new Sub-Department and advise on the

staff required to run it permanently has been carefully

considered by my Advisers on Development and

Co-operation, and has been discussed with the

Co-operative *holesale Society. As a result of these

discussions I am advised that, spart from the fact that

it is most unlikely that the Co-onerative Organisations

in this country would be able to provide a suitable

officer

GOVERNOR

SIR ALEXANDER ORANDA, 7.C.LO.,