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TO PRIORITY GOVERNOR HONG KONG TELEGRAM NO. 194 OF 21 FEB INFO

PEKING AND BTC HONG KONG.

MY TELEGRAM NO. 172:

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VISIT BY SECRETARY OF STATE FOR TRADE AND INDUSTRY.

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1. MR AND MRS HESELTINE WOULD NOW LIKE TO PAY AN OFFICIAL VISIT TO

HONG KONG BEFORE THEIR VISIT TO CHINA. THEY WOULD LEAVE LONDON BY

BA 808 ON THURSDAY 22 MARCH ARRIVING IN HONG KONG AT 13:02 ON

FRIDAY 23 MARCH, AND WOULD LEAVE HONG KONG ON SATURDAY 24 MARCH

FOR PEKING IN MR WALKER'S AIRCRAFT. MR HESELTINE IS PLANNING TO

LEAVE CHINA ON 31 MARCH, SUBJECT TO THE PROGRAMME FOR HIS VISIT,

IN THE SAME AIRCRAFT AS MR WALKER.

2. MR HESELTINE WOULD LIKE IN PARTICULAR TO DISCUSS WITH YOU THE

QUESTION OF THE PROPOSED HONG KONG SHIPPING REGISTER: I WILL LET

YOU KNOW IN DUE COURSE IF HE WISHES TO RAISE ANY OTHER POINTS. 3. MR HESELTINE WILL BE ACCOMPANIED THROUGHOUT BY MRS HESELTINE,

MR D LE B JONES, UNDER SERCRETARY AIR DIVISION DTÍ, AND MR LANE,

PRIVATE SECRETARY, GRATEFUL IF YOU WOULD ARRANGE ACCOMMODATION.

4. MR HESELTINE'S TRAVEL PLANS FOR THE RETURN JOURNEY HONG KONG

TO LONDON ARE STILL UNCERTAIN. HE MAY WISH TO STAY UNTIL SUNDAY

1 APRIL AND FLY BACK DIRECT TO LONDON.

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5. AS REGARDS THE VISIT BY MR LEWANDO HE WOULD LIKE TO DISCUSS WITH

YOU IN HIS BRITISH TEXTILE CONFEDERATION CAPACITY THE REACTION IN HONG KONG TO THE IMPORT RESTRAINTS PLACED ON TEXTILES BY THE UK AND

THE PROMEM OF THE MOVEMENT OF CAPITAL OUT OF HONG KONG TO MACAU

AND K

CTC TO BUILD TEXTILE FACTORIES, THUS CIRCUMVENTING THE

REGULATIONS, HE WOULD LIKE TO DISCUSS IN HIS BOTB CAPACITY WITH

THE SENIOR BRITISH TRADE COMMISSIONER THE GENERAL ECONOMIC AND

TRADE CLIMATE IN HONG KONG, AND BOTE FUTURE STRATEGY IN THE MARKET.

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