CONFIDENTIAL
The Hon Li Fook-kow
Secretary for Social Services
Government of Hong Kong.
26 March 1974
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REPORT OF OVERSEAS LABOUR ADVISER
RECEIVED IN REGISTRY No. 51
2 - APR 1974
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1. I am enclosing with this letter six copies of my report on my visit last month to Hong Kong. I would have liked to have got it to you sooner but I paid a private visit to Australia after leaving Hong Kong and, apart from other pre-occupations on my return to London, I brought back with me a good deal of material which I had first to study before putting pen to paper.
2. As regards outstanding labour legislation, the problem of wages and of social security, there is little in the report which we did not discuss during our two meetings, but I have also dealt with a number of technical questions for the sake of completeness and to havo my views on record. More important, however, I have sought to look at the whole range of labour and social affairs in Hong Kong within the franowork of Hong Kong's economic and budgetary policies. Unfortunately, the report was completed before I had the opportunity to see the Financial Secretary's Budget Speech, which would to a modest extent huve modified some of my views, but would not have altered the basic question which is whether the Gladstonian economic policies (and I do not mean this in a pejorative sense) which have been followed so far with such success are likely to be as apt in the future.
3. I would emphasise that the report contains only my own views and is only now being circulated within the Forcign and Commonwealth Office. There will no doubt in due course be an official
communication about this report and its recommendations.
I have sent a copy with a personal letter to His Excellency the Governor.
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