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been studied with mat interest-

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DRAFT

LETTER

To:-

Sir D. Trench, KCMG.,

MC.,

Government House,

HONG KONG.

Type 1 +

From

160

Sir A. Galsworthy

Telephone No. & Ext.

Department

I ought to have written ages ago to thank you for

Thank you for your letter of 10 January

the final version of the

enclosing an Executive Council paper on the

legislative programme of the Labour Department, the earlier version of which I had seen in Hayy Kang. He have peed The paper with crest interest. And

ᎪᎵ;

The Department's full legislative

programme is more formidable than most of us

here thought, although we recall that when you

were on leave last year you mentioned that some

twenty to thirty pieces of legislation were in

the pipe-line. The size of it brings up again

the question prie ties beth within the

the.

programme itself and vis a vis the total

legislative requirements of other departments.

dive

I think we are agreed that it is important

to maintain steady progress on the labour front

to meet the challenge in the new phase of

and how our talks last communist confrontation; To this end some

Deseurber I knað that you

special priority may need to be given to labour

measures over the legislation of other

departments.

We know that these considerations

are very much in your mind, and that you will be

drafting and

keeping a close watch on the legislative

programme.

We were glad to see that in the departmental

list (which was to be reviewed on 25 January)

the new Employment Bill and the amendment of the

Workmen's Compensation Ordinance have a high

priority and that other items are included on

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