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G)

LUNCH

H)

1400

1)

INFORMAL

DEPART FROM GOVERNMENT HOUSE

SHORT PRESS CONFERENCE AT AIRPORT BEFORE DEPARTURE FOR

SINGAPORE AT 1505.

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5. I HOPE THAT MR AND MRS WALKER AND MRS AND MRS HESELTINE WILL

STAY AT GOVERNMENT HOUSE. THERE WOULD ALSO BE ROOM FOR MR BERRY AND

MR CAINES.

6. WE WILL BOOK ACCOMMODATION FOR THE REMAINDER AT THE MANDARIN

HOTEL. WE ARE NOT REPT NOT MAKING BOOKINGS FOR MR AND MRS LEWANDO

OR MR WOODLEY, BUT WE WILL COVER THE POSSIBILITY OF MR. MASON, ECGD, AND TWO OFFICIALS ACCOMPANY THE HESELTINES.

7.

GRATEFUL FOR COMMENTS BY TELEGRAM ON THESE PROPOSALS AND IN

PARTICULAR ON THE CHAMBER OF COMMERCE DINNER SO THAT THEY CAN GET

AHEAD WITH ARRANGEMENTS. THE SOONER INVITATIONS GO OUT THE BETTER.

8. WE CAN DISCUSS THE DETAILS WITH CORLEY WHEN HE COMES THROUGH

ON 19TH MARCH. SENIOR TRADE COMMISSIONER IS REPLYING SEPARATELY

TO CORLEY ABOUT HIS PROGRAMME AND THAT OF DAVIES AND THE GALSWORTHYS (YOUR TELNO 184 TO PEKING).

9. HAVE MRS. WALKER AND MRS. HESELTINE ANY PREFERENCES? UNLESS

THEY WISH SPECIAL ARRANGEMENTS MADE WE COULD DISCUSS WHAT THEY

WOULD LIKE TO DO AFTER THEIR ARRIVAL. BUT I WOULD LIKE TO KNOW

WHETHER THEY WOULD PREFER A QUIET EVENING

ON THE SATURDAY, OR TO GO OUT TO DINNER, FOR INSTANCE,

WITH THE STC'S WIFE, OR WITH FRIENDS?

10.

IN VIEW OF PARA. 3 OF YOUR TEL 172 WE ARE NOT

ARRANGING FOR MR LEWANDO OR MOR WOOLLEY TO TAKE PART IN ANY OF THE

ABOVE PROGRAMME. I WOULD OF COURSE GLADLY

SEE MR LEWANDO ON THE MONDAY.

FCO PASS COPY TO HONG KONG GOVERNMENT OFFICE LONDON

MACLEHOSE

FILES

HKIOD.

COPIES TO:

MR CORLEY

DTI

MISS WELCH CRE II

HONG KONG GOVERNMENT OFFICE

6 GRAFTON STREET W 1

FED

SEAD

SIR D WATSON

PS/MR ROYLE

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