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controls and I don't believe they would do such a thing without due deliberation and prior clearance from

of

us,

1

2. Is Orr's letter conforms in some ways my belief that fong Kong have not done their withmetic - as I argued in my minute of 7 Septemberat folio 116 (on which, incidentally, I have only just seen your comment: I will follow up with FED as suggested) a rate of 75 perday would seem to be perfectly acceptable. Also it is surely either nonsense to refer to the influx

immingrants as an

as an "unplanned increase" or else it repeals lamentable incompetence in those responsible for planning in Hong Kong. In fact I was told when I was in Hong Kong that they were planning on the assumption that the population of Hong Kong would reach about 6 million by the end of the century, given the falling bittrate, insingration is obviously expected to make a substantial contribution to that growth.

Cher

W.E. Chantill 1579.

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