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COMMONWEALTH OFFICE,
Curtis Green Building,
London, S.W.1.
10
January, 1968.
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Would you please refer to Hong Kong telegram No. 1355 of the 7th September on the subject of adverse publicity for Hong Kong.
The telegram in question was repeated to Wellington and we have recently had a letter from our Mission there. The letter explains that since the New Zealand Press Association have no representative in Hong Kong the local press have leaned heavily on Reuter's representatives for its stories: however, thats water under the bridge. Hy reason for writing to you now is to pass on a suggestion, contained in the same letter that the Hong Kong Tourist Office in Sydney might be in a position to ensure that more accurate reports on events in Hong Kong are available in that part of the world. The idea is that this might be done as part of the service that the Tourist Office provides in sending out information and news letters to airline offices and travel agents.
However,
No doubt this sort of exercise is already being taken care of by the Hong Kong Overseas Public Relations Co-ordination Committee. we have told Wellington that we would pass the suggestion on to you and this I am now doing. Perhaps you would be good enough to see that it reaches the proper quarter.
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E.T. Davies Esq.,
Assistant Political Advisor,
Colonial Secretariat, Hong Kong.
A.W. Gaminara.
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