TNAG-0694-FCO40-844-Inspection-of-Hong-Kong-Department-1977 — Page 67

Mr Clayden

G&G D

K270

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ACCOMMODATION FOR THE NEW MERGED DEPARTMENT

1. Thank you for your minute of 21 March.

2.

I think that the accommodation arrangements you have now worked out. with Mr Harrington are satisfactory for the "Hong Kong component" of the proposed new department. I am very doubtful, however, whether it would be possible to put more than two secretaries in either K248 (two occupants at present) or K251 (one occupant). However, 1 think that Mr Stewart and his PA will be satisfied if she does not have to share a room with more than one person. That, indeed, wag an arrangement, we had already envisaged following Mr Jasperk suggestion that the Head of the new department's PA might share with another PA. Incidentally, I propose to ask Miss Knight in POD to agree that we should keep Miss Wood an one of the S2/38 in the new department in place of either Miss Underwood or Miss Carlile. Miss Wood has been with HKD since early February. She has settled down well and it would be unfortunate if she were to be moved to another department.

3. The Home Inspectordid, in fact, recommend that the new department should be known as "llon Kong and General Department" (see paragraph LAG A 11 (iii) Part I of Mr Morgan's report). I agree that there seems to on HIKIOP be no overriding objection to having "and General" as part of the

title of more than one department in the Office and that any alternative to "HKGD" would be too much of a mouthful.

Will you speak to Mr Farrar in PPD on this point when the time comes? (It was he who fixed the change last summer from "HKIOD" to "HKD".)

22 March 1977

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Mr Stewart o.r.

Mr Jasper

Mrs Gregory

Mr Harington ASD

D. F. Milton

DF Milton

Hong Kong Department K 247

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