CO129-617-6 Development- recommendations of Hong Kong Colonial Development and Welfare Committee 18-7-1947 - 23-12-1947 — Page 3

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I have read the Development Report for Hong Kong with great interest and consider the plan a good one, and one which, so far as the agricultural side is concerned, can be supported to the full. What is now needed is a good Director of Agriculture, and I have already suggested that Mr. Hirst from Cyprus should be selected for this post. Having read the plan I feel that his experience in Cyprus,

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