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HONG KONG TO COMMONWEALTH OFFICE (D.T.D.)
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5 October, 1967.
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051800 Attention Glover Sitrep.
Mr. Victor Goodhew, Conservative Member of Parliament for Saint Albans, who is studying conditions in Hong Kong had talks yesterday, Wednesday, with officials of Trade Development Council and Commerce and Industry Department.
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Talks ranged over commerce and industrial production
and Colony's international trade and image.
A T.D.C. official said he was sure Mr. Goodhew would
help restore confidence abroad about Hong Kong.
Executive Director of T.D.C. Mr. R.G.L. Oliphant said yesterday that increase in Hong Kong's trade so far this year was 16.5 per cent compared with increase of 9.5 for cor- responding period last year.
Another very encouraging feature he said was that efforts to diversify Colony's trade were bearing fruit.
"We must continue to sell our cotton and other textiles but the broader the base of our industry, less vulnerable it will be" he said.
Mr. Oliphant was giving first in Hong Kong University's Extramural Affairs Department's 1967 series of public lectures on Hong Kong commerce and industry at City Hall lecture room.
Federation of Hong Kong Industries is organising an exhibition of Hong Kong handicrafts as feature of Hong Kong week at end of this month.
Fourteen groups of craftsmen will demonstrate their skills at exhibition to be held at Ocean Terminal from 30 October to 5 November.
Hong Kong week is being sponsored by Federation of Hong Kong Industries in conjunction with Trade Development Council and its principal objective is to promote locally sale of Hong Kong goods.
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