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Mr Laird

1.

Thank you for letting me have a sight of these papers. Mr Rushford's proposal for contributory pensions to certain members of the Hong Kong Judiciary certainly represents as far as I am aware a radical approach to the particular problem experienced in Hong Kong in this particular field. We have however no specialised pensions expertise in DTGD and I should like to see the views of Manpower Department I in ODA, on whom we rely for advice on such matters, before commenting further on the wider implications of such an approach. If there is no over-riding urgency about the letter to Hong Kong, perhaps the papers could be referred to ODA. I should then like to see them again in the light of comments by Mr Hall, the HMOCS Liaison Officer who is currently attached to my department.

Jazs

JDB Shaw

Dependent Territories General Dept

13 August 1971

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