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FROM: P F Ricketts
Hong Kong Department
DATE:
9 July 1992
Mr Hum
Chief Clerk
PS/PUS
Mr Marrie
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suggest a Annex to le
file for all Hir
cc: PS/Mr Goodlad
Sir John Coles
Mr Bertram, OED
NEW CONSULATE-GENERAL IN HONG KONG
Problem
1.
How to deal with unfocussed but strongly held concerns
on the part of the new Senior British Trade Commissioner, Mr Day, about the Consulate-General project (and, more
generally, about his objectives).
Recommendation
2.
That Mr Day be asked to return urgently to London with
the aim of talking through his concerns and bringing him on board. I submit a telegram to him from the Chief Clerk.
OED agree.
Background
3. Since his arrival in post in late May, Mr Day has become increasingly unhappy with the basis on which
decisions have been taken so far on the new
Consulate-General building in Hong Kong, and with the design for the building preferred by all others concerned in both London and Hong Kong. He has linked this to an exercise he
has mounted on his own initiative to recast the British
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