From Hong Kong

Correspondence from Butterfield & Swire offices in Hong Kong to John Swire and Sons London office concerning staff. Includes documents concerning; salaries; staff recruitment; terms of employment; Chinese language study; individual staff reports; Cathay Pacific Airways; staff health; call for a...

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Order number: FILE CLOSED JSS Box 2918
Date(s) of creation: 1949
Level: File
Format: Archive           

collection SOAS Archive
id JSS.2.7.4.60.04
recordtype archive
scb_item_location Archive & Special Collections
item_location Archive & Special Collections
scb_loan_type Reference only
scb_order_with FILE CLOSED JSS Box 2918
callnumber JSS/2/7/4/60/04
callnumber_txt JSS/2/7/4/60/04
callnumber-sort JSS/2/7/4/60/04
scb_alt_ref_no JSSII 7/4/60/4
prefix_number 04
scb_previous_numbers Staff Letters No. 51
title From Hong Kong
scb_date_creation 1949
scb_level File
level_sort 7/Collection/Sub-Collection/Sub-Sub-Collection/Sub-Sub-Sub-Collection/Series/Sub-Series/Sub-Sub-Series/File
scb_extent 1 folder
format Archive
description Correspondence from Butterfield & Swire offices in Hong Kong to John Swire and Sons London office concerning staff. Includes documents concerning; salaries; staff recruitment; terms of employment; Chinese language study; individual staff reports; Cathay Pacific Airways; staff health; call for a "limited evacuation" of mothers and children from Shanghai to Hong Kong; plans for accommdation of Shanghai evacuees in Hong Kong; opening an office in Formosa (Taiwan); emergency plans for deployment of Shanghai staff; home leave; Japanese language study and examinations; report on visit to Japan office; club membership; updates on Chungking (Chongqing) and Tientsin (Tianjin); statement in parliament on war losses and compensation; plans for a Control Office in Singapore; Shanghai blockade; staffing for PAMAS (Pacific Air Maintenance Services); report of a defalcation by a member of staff. See JSSII 7/4/60/3 for name and subject index for letters from Hong Kong and Shanghai offices.
scb_access_status Closed
scb_closed_until 01/01/2030
scb_conditions_gov_access File closed under Data Protection Act until 1st January 2030
scb_copyright Copyright is owned by John Swire & Sons, Ltd, 59 Buckingham Gate, London, SW1E 6AJ
scb_use_restrictions Copying for personal research purposes is permitted. Please contact the archivist for all publication requests.
hierarchy_top_id_raw JSS
hierarchy_sequence JSS.002.007.004.0060.0004