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not because he was dissatisfied but in an endeavour to

improve matters all round. He had however no particular

for this

support from his colleagues.

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(a) Of the 2 DST officers, Mr Smith said that he

did not have a great deal of job satisfaction at HMS Tamar,

but admitted that he had nonetheless asked for his period

in Hong Kong to be extended.

I arrived in Hong Kong on the afternoon of 26 October

and took the next day off to recover from jet lag.

This

gave me 2 full working days in Hong Kong, followed by a

third which included a helicopter flight along the border

between the New Territories and the Peoples Republic of

China. While my visit to Hong Kong could possibly have.

been compressed into, say, a day and a half, I would not

recommend that anyone visiting Hong Kong from the UK

as a preliminary to travelling on should spend very much

less time in Hong Kong than I did on this occasion.