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and, if you pass the medical examination, you will be required to visit Hong Kong for initial briefing before taking up your duties in Brussels (please see para. 8 below concerning wives who accom- pany officers on such visits). Arrangements will also be made by the Commissioner in London for you personally to be provided with a return air passage to Brussels for a familiarisation visit there before you actually take up the appointment. You will be required to sign an undertaking at the Commissioner's office as is customary to refund these fares should you fail to complete the 21⁄2 years of resident service in Brussels.
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a convenient and Indust
8.
You will
visit Hong Kong annually at by the Director of Commerce
It is also considered desirable that the wives of Hong Kong's overseas representatives should have the opportunity to visit Hong Kong. If Mrs. Burgess is willing to accompany you on your initial visit, a passage will be provided by the Hong Kong Government and subsistence allowance paid at the same rate as yourself for the period of her visit, on the understanding that she will be prepared to accept a 'familiarisation' programme prepared by the Government. After the initial visit, it is not considered necessary that the wife of an officer should accampany him on each of his visits to Hong Kong, but desirable that she should accompany him in alternate years.
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I should be grateful if you would inform me in writing whether you accept the offer of appoint as Deputy Director of Commerce and Industry on the conditions referred to above and, if so, indicate when you can take up the appointment.
Yours faithfully,
(R.G.B. Bridge)
Secretary for the Civil Service
Encls.
c.c. D.C. & I.
Acct. Gen.
D. of Audit
H.K. Commissioner, London
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