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As I told you on the 'phone, we are now returning your kai-Tak files with apologies for the length of time for which we have kept them There are a great many loose papers which your I am afraid that Registry will want to file. before long we shall have to borrowfiles again because further action is impending as a result of Mr. Carter's letter of 11th March to Mr. Steel and the likaihood that Ministers will soon be considering this question.
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2. Among the lost papers is one which was received in your Department earlier this month, Hong Kong Saving Despatch no. 197,in which they apply to the Colonial Development and Welfare Fund for a grant of £235,200 towards the expansion of their aeronautical telecommunications capability at Kai-Tak airport: I have only just seen this.
3. As i told you, it seems to me that this application may duplicate an element in the larger request for a loan which has been under consideration all this time. I should be grateful if you would confirm this by reference to the previous papers. But insofar as a sum of £660,000 is included against the improvement of the ATC system at Kai-Tak in the major request, I am fairly sure of what I say.
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If we discover that this is a duplication then presumably we shall have to send an interim reply to Saving Despatch no. 197 to the effect that the request for CD and W assistance will have to be held over until the loan request is decided. may also have to mention a matter which is being handled in Financial Policy and Aid Department of
Effectively future aid to the dependent territories. the Colonial Development and Welfare acts expire in 1970 and future aid will be given under the Overseas Aid Act. It may be that even if the major loan application falls away and this minor application to CD and W remains, on, Kong will have to provide information in a different form from that she has used in her recent despatch.
5. I am copying this minute to Miss Durbin, F.P.A.D.
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(H.H. Stewart 12th March, 1969.
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