TNAG-0785-FCO40-989-Study-of-labour-relations-in-Hong-Kong-by-Professor-H-A-Turn-1978 — Page 59

Professor H A Turner

Department of Economics

School of Industrial Relations

Sydney University

Sydney, NSW 2006 AUSTRALIA

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Foreign and Commonwealth Office

London S.W.1

15 July 1976

(W/136)

:

I am directed to refer you to your letter of 21 June to Mr O'Keeffe and his telegram to you of 1 July.

I confirm that the British Government wish you to make the following additional arrangements to carry out the study of labour relations in Hong Kong referred to in Mr Male's letter of 4 June 1976:

a. to provide yourself and your team with sufficient office facilities at the Asian Studies Centre of the University of ilong Kong;

b. to engage Mr Ho Kwong Ming to assist your team during August and September;

C. to arrange for the assistance of a labour officer from the long Government's Labour Department on the terms described in your letter of 21 June;

d. to invite Miss Patricia Fosh of Bath University to join your team during August to work under your direction. (I am sending a letter of appointment to Miss Fosh at Bath University setting out the conditions of her appointment; a copy of this letter is annexed.)

The additional costs of these arrangements have been authorised. The Hong Kong dollars equivalent of £100, as requested in your letter to cover cost of office facilities, and HK$2,000 as an honorarium for Mr Ho Kwong Ming will be available to you at the British Trade Commission of ilong Kong.

In the light of your comments in your letter of 21 June, we are making the following amendments to the terms of your payment set out in Mr Male's letter of 4 June 1976. The payment for sundries will be increased to include cost of travel in Hong Kong for yourself and lir Handy to a limit of £100. Professor llart's limit will remain at 250. On certification that you and your colleagues have spent not less than these amounts on sundry items during the course of the study, these sums will be refunded to you on com- pletion of the project. Subsistence at the appropriate rate will

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