Commission fully occupied.
With Hong Kong's propensity for buying in the cheapest market regardless of her ties with HMG, I should have thought that the Colony required the "Hard sell" technique to compete with the Japanese, French, Americans etc.
7. In the penultimate paragraph of the letter at (90) Mr Blackwell suggests that his information officer be either withdrawn or have his brief restricted entirely to commercial matters if he is not to be allowed to comment on such matters as the defence contribution. I strongly recommend that we should take him up on this suggestion and confine the information officer's brief entirely to commercial matters If after a reasonable time such a step did not show dividends in the trading sphere, then the officer might be withdrawn altogether.
8. If the above idea were to be pursued, it would, I think, be advisable for us to write to the Governor in the first instance, let him know what we have in mind and ask for his views.
ME
A W Gaminara
нніх.
6 January 1971
Ps. Since
Since
dictating the above I have remembered
6/543/12 Blackwell's letter of 26 August, 1970,
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15 140 Wyatt in
copy of which was sent to G.I.P.D.) in which he office suggested that. The post of Information Appicer in his
be downgraded:
you
should be
with which
be left for the post.
The view later by IA!.,
was
that the matte mould
agreed consideration at the next inspection of Perhaps this is still the right
answer.
ANG
6.1.71.
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