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Commercial Affairs) in Washington; controlling and

coordinating the various activities the Hong Kong

Government undertakes directly in the United States;

maintaining contact with the offices of the Trade

Development Council and the Hong Kong Tourist

Association in the United States; disseminating

information about Hong Kong and establishing personal

contacts with individuals and organisations with a view to improving Hong Kong's image throughout the United

States. The officer selected to fill this post is

Mr W. Dorward who will take up this appointment in

April next year. The expansion of the present role

of our Brussels Office, which is already headed up by

an officer with the diplomatic rank of Minister, will

follow later on.

26.

The reorganisation of the Secretariat will

become effective as soon as possible and a working group

under the chairmanship of the Director, Councils and

Administration Branch is now working out all the detailed

arrangements relating to schedules of business, staffing,

accommodation and official membership of advisory and

administrative committees (and I would like to see some

pruning here), subject to one over-riding proviso that

there is to be no net increase in staff as a result of

these changes.

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Other changes will undoubtedly become necessary fairly soon. For instance, it may be necessary to create

a small unit within the Secretariat, probably attached to the Councils and Administration Branch and responsible

directly to the Chief Secretary, to coordinate the use of Government's scientific and technical resources, (excluding

those in the engineering and medical fields), in a more

efficient and effective manner.

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