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discussed rural broadcasting in Hong Kong and toured the New Territories.

156. Mr. Robert GREGSON, Head of the General Overseas Service of the BBC spent several days in Hong Kong as part of a tour of Asian countries. His visit was particularly useful as Radio Hong Kong makes considerable use of the General Overseas Service programmes. 157. Other visitors who took part in broadcasts will be found listed in Appendix G.

NEWS SERVICES

158. English and Chinese news bulletins are relayed daily from the BBC, and local bulletins of world and Hong Kong news are prepared by the radio newsroom of the Information Services Department.

WEATHER REPORTS

159. Weather reports are supplied by the Royal Observatory and take the form of general situation reports for shipping and local area forecasts, broadcast in English and all Chinese languages. Special sea area forecasts for fishermen were introduced on the 1st January and are broadcast four times a day.

160. During typhoons, weather information is broadcast hourly throughout the day and night.

RELATIONS WITH OTHER BROADCASTING ORGANIZATIONS

British Broadcasting Corporation

161.

The Corporation seconded one member of its staff, an announcer from Northern Ireland, to Radio Hong Kong as an English Service Programme Assistant. It was also asked to second an adminis- trator to Radio Hong Kong for three years as Assistant Controller of Broadcasting, but no appointment had been made by the end of the

year.

162. The Transcription Service, as in the past, was invaluable in supplying programme material to the English Service.

163. The BBC Chinese Service continued to record certain pro- grammes in Cantonese and to send these out for broadcast by Radio Hong Kong. 'Life in Britain'. 'Miss Wong's Diary' and 'Commonwealth Diary' were three of these programmes. 'Miss Wong's Diary' tells the story of a Chinese girl from Hong Kong studying in Britain, whilst

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