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NICHOLAS WINTERTON MP

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Thank you for your letter of 25 August enclosing

one from Mrs M C Farley about life in Hong Kong.

So far as I can see Mrs Farley's main complaints

arise out of the cultural and environmental difficulties

between life in England and Hong Kong, for example, the

climate, the noise and the language. While I can

sympathise with the sense of culture shock to which

Mrs Farley refers, I am not sure that there is much I can

do about it. I think you would agree that it was very mu

up to Mr and Mrs Farley to make enquiries about life in

Hong Kong before going to live there, either privately or

through the Hong Kong Government Office in London, which

I understand runs briefings for newly recruited expatriat

staff before they go to Hong Kong.

Mrs Farley refers, in a rather vague way, to a lac

of furniture and telephone, and to her children still

being in England. These are really matters that she

should take up with the Hong Kong Governemnt, either

with the Quartering Office or Conditions of Service

Section of the Civil Service Branch. I am sure that the

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