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Registry No.

SECURITY CLASSIFICATION

Top Secret.

Secret.

Confidential.

Restricted.

Unclassified.

PRIVACY MARKING

.In Confidence

E O Laird

DRAFT

LETTER

To:-

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Type 1 +

HE Sir D Trench GCMG MC

Colonial Secretariat HONG KONG

From

Sir L Monson

Telephone No. & Ext.

thes

Department

Thank you for your letter of 25 February

about housing

2.

I am now enclosing a copy of a letter sent

to Joe Carner by the Worker-Student Political

Action Committee.

As you will see, this deals

mainly with the conditions on resettlement

It has been sent to

estates, and in case we are tackled by the press

and incase we are tackle set by the Baroness Summerskill it would be most helpful

and

if you could let us have your comments as soon

as possible. We already know of course from your

letter of 25 February that the Housing Board have

plans for the relief of overcrowding in the

estates but could you please give us some

indication of the extent to which the problem will

be solved by the implementation of the Board's

proposals?

3.

Garner consulted us about his reply to the

Action Committee and with our agreement he took

the line that he did not think the letter affected

the

the validity of his general argument that very many Governments did very much less than/Hong Kong Git,

You may remember that this was the argument he

put forward during the debate in the House of

Lords making the point that no doubt all governments

could do more.