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Appendix A

12.07

The University of Sydury

SYDNEY. 2006

NEW SOUTH WALES

AUSTRALIA

IN REPLY PLEASE QUOTE

Department of Industrial Relations

Mr. J.A. Hammond,

Acting Secretary to the

Civil Service Department,

Government of Hong Kong, Government Buildings, HONG KONG.

30th June, 1977

Dear Mr. Hammond,

Mr. Alan Scott, during my discussions with principal officers of the Civil` Service Department in Hong Kong in May, suggested the Department might be interested to finance a second look at the study of unions and labour relations in the public service which was made by Mr. Michael Quinlan, a Commonwealth postgraduate scholar here, earlier this year.

There is another research worker here who could be available for part of the Sydney August vacation to do this: since he has a very different background (and in some respects more widely-based experience) to Mr. Quinlan's, he might well have a different slant.

I think it would cost about $10,000 to send him up for a month (assuming I can get him a half-price "research student" return fare, as I did for Quinlan). i would be prepared to find half of this, since he could combine his work on the Civil Service with some for me on another sector of Hong Kong labour relations.

I should be glad to have your reaction. Meanwhile, Mr. Quinlan has prepared a much compressed version ofhis own report; this he is currently revising again, and I would hope to send it up in advance to facilitate your own Department's comment.

Best wishes,

C

Sincerely,

II.A. Turner