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should need a well qualified researcher at about Lecturer level to spend something like a year in Hong Kong, while he himself would supervise the research and perhaps pay a couple of visits to the Colony.
3. He fully agreed with the need for a fair and dispassionate appraisal of the local situation and the importance therefore of finding the right man for the basic research. He would think about this and get in touch with me again.
4. As regards the penultimate sentence of your minute above, it would of course be an advantage if the Governor would agree to commission the study himself, but since the money would presumably need to be approved by Executive Council (?) or at least Executive Council and/or Legislative Council be informed, it would be very difficult to maintain the low profile we believe this exercise to require. We can only await the Governor's response to Sir Duncan Watson's letter.
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5. As regards my minute of 12 August about informing the TUC, perhaps you could check this with Mr McNally since I shall be going on leave for almost a month from the end of this week.
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