CO129-629-5 Purchase of the Law and Sayer picture collection by the Government of Hong Kong 1-6-1951 - 31-12-1951 — Page 21

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Permt U.S. of S.

Parly. U.S. S.

Minister of State

Secretary of State

Your Reference...

82

C. D.

13 DEC

20

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ace revised off

dee

1

that

am

Surry

we

have been so

(20)

lung

replying

to

your

letter of the 23rd

Nov.

We have been scratching

ou!

heads

to try and find some way of organizing

an informal exhibitim

and I

very

much

regret that in the end we have been unable

great disappointment to us,

Copy of minute croft B.2.

when letter at off CG

سم

o

"

one.

to

arrange

this.

This is

as

I kw it will be to Anderson said when

you.

But, as

he

Grimwood

You

talked the matter over,

the main difficulty has

been that

we

have no

authority for spending

anything

such an

exhibition, however small

in

FURTHER ACTION

necessary.

This lack

the sum that might be

$ of funds has meant that we cannot witho

overame the verims snags pointed out to by the Crown Agents

(a)

из

transport wt have to be arranged

the pictures to a tran the place exhibitio.

us

to

Carry

of