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The Industrial Development Board should clearly consider this matter and I would hope that this can be done quickly. If necessary, international experts should be employed to assist in the study since our industry is obviously internationally oriented and subject to international market and technology influences.
In closing, the Industrial Development Board appears to meet and carry out its very important work in what could be described as a rather private manner and does not at present appear to have any formal link with major organisations such as, for example, my own, the Hong Kong General Chamber of Commerce, which represents large numbers of manufacturers. There is no distribution of papers beyong its ad personam membership nor it seems for example is my organisation asked to
This is a strange provide advice or information to the I.D.B.
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state of affairs and should be swiftly examined. and age, the principle of direct representation for the major organisations on Government Boards and Councils which have the task of advising the Government on essential and fundamental policies on trade and industrial development is surely the right one to follow. In this regard the Labour Advisory Board is a very good example of balanced tripartite representation which clearly works well.
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