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Foreign and Commonwealth Office London S.W.1

CONFIDENTIAL

SAVING DESPATCH

HKK5/26-1970

From the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth

Affairs

To the Governor, HONG KONG

2nd March, 1970.

No. 80

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Your Saving Despatch No. 1379 of 16th December 1969.

Reference PR60/451/68 (TC196/68

Equal Pay for Women

Mrs. Barbara Castle has recently received the two

enclosed telegrams on the subject of equal pay for women,

particularly in the teaching and nursing professions.

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Could you please reply to the organizations concerned

on our behalf, acknowledging receipt. For your information

a copy of the Equal Pay (No 2) Bill is enclosed. This is

at present passing through the Committee Stage in the House

of Commons, and has not yet been enacted as the telegrams

suggest. It is noted that it is the intention of the Hong Kong Government to achieve equal pay for women employed

in the Public Service by 1st April 1975, and that the U.K.

scheme, although covering different areas of employment,

aims at the date of 29th December 1975. You may consider it worthwhile drawing the attention of the organizations

to this fact.

3. We should be grateful for an early reply to our Despatch No. 35 of 23rd January 1970. The absence of any reply to the Hong Kong Chinese Civil Servants Association's petition

appears to be drawing some unfavourable comment.

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