TNAG-0572-FCO40-705-Monitoring-of-progress-made-on-planning-paper-on-Hong-Kong-1976 — Page 42

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1. We would have preferred you to have kept to the text of paragraph 7 in your original draft. In particular, we are not happy with the first sentence in your revised draft which, it seems to us, could be seized upon in Hong Kong as an argument that no immediate remedial action. is needed to improve conditions of employment (we are, incidentally, doubtful about the reliability of the wage statistics on the basis of wich you have made a comparison between Hong Kong and competitor countries).

should therefore like to reinstate the first sentence in your original paragraph 7 and to make a number of consequential amendments, so that the text would

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