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Labous conditions in Hong Kong.

A reply to your letter of 6 May at (67) to Sir Hugh Norman-Walker has at last beau Received and is al (79).

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Mr. Holmes hat siezed on the throne imports" used in your letter which be takes to refer to imparts pour Hong Kong into U.K.

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the lors rates of pay in Hong Kong which mache low cost export's possible.

I would think that the views expressed by the trade umorists stemmed from ignorance halter than from self-interest,

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