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COLONIAL SECRETARIAT,

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REGISTRY No.51 21 OCT 1969

HKK 9/3

LM FE 167/69.

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Dear Bunny

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14th October, 1969.

May I refer to your letter HKK 9/3 to Sir Hugh Norman-Walker dated 3rd October, about John Marsh's visit to Hong Kong between 27th October and 1st November. We are in touch with the various groups mentioned in your letter and will have an interesting programme ready for his arrival. I am afraid that it will not be possible to have a full programme ready in time to send it to India as we have had to await Bailey's return from leave today to settle the University and Polytechnic Planning Committee arrangements; but it should be possible to telegraph to him at New Delhi giving a brief summary of what is so far proposed.

The programme will be a crowded one but clearly Marsh will not mind this. We have reserved one whole day (his last day) for a visit to Macau, and if he decides that he would rather follow up some particular issue in Hong Kong, we can easily switch arrangements during his stay here. For example, as it stands the programme does not include a session with Hetherington and Sorby, but he might decide to meet them on Friday 31st October rather than visit Macau.

I am sorry about the confusion over who would arrange the programme. It seems that our telegram to O.D.M., saying that the Hong Kong Management Association would arrange the programme, was based on a misunderstanding; the Association is arranging its own and the local B.I.M. members' contributions, and regarded the visit as officially sponsored and hence our responsibility. We are of course happy to co-ordinate it, particularly as we stand to benefit from Marsh's visit.

H.E.

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