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(HKK 9/3).
TO ROUTINE HONG KONG TELNO 981 OF 22 DECEMBER,
FOR BAILEY UNIVERSITY AND POLYTECHNIC GRANTS COMMITTEE.
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HONG KONG POLYTECHNIC.
1. ODM PROJECTS COMMITTEE HAVE AGREED THAT GRANT OF POUNDS STERLING 500,000 ( FIVE HUNDRED THOUSAND POUNDS) SHOULD BE SPENT
AS FOLLOWS:
(A) LIBRARY AND RELATED
EXPENDITURE ALREADY INCURRED ON
BOOKS AND BINDING EQUIPMENT
(B) PRINTING EQUIPMENT
(C) NON-PRINT MATERIAL
(D) BOOKS
POUNDS STERLING.
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30,000
150,000
174,000
390
METROLOGY AND QUALITY ASSURANCE
(E) EQUIPMENT
110,000
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2. EXPENDITURE WILL BE PHASED OVER THE PERIOD UP TO END OF 1977 ALTHOUGH EXPENDITURE ON BOOKS MIGHT TAKE LONGER.
CALLAGHAN
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Reference....HKK 9/3
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Mr Ridgewell (Investment and Consultations Dept ODM)
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1. I fear that an error appears to have crept into paragraph 3 of these minutes. There are in fact two grants in question for Hong Kong: one of £500,000 now approved) to the Polytechnic and another of £1:00,000 (still to be approved) to the Technical Institutes. I should be grateful if the minutes could be amended to take account of this point. It could be met by deleting the comma and the words "£400,000 of which was" in the second line of the paragraph. Mr Burr may already have spotted the
error.
23 December 1975
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DF Milton
HKIOD
Foreign and Commonwealth Office
London SW1A 2AH
Telephone 01-
Despatched.
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NCL Shipman Esq
Colonial Secretariat
Lower Albert Road
Hong Kong
Your reference
Our reference HKK 9/3
Date
232.
23 December 1975
1. Your letter (CR 21/2041/70/II) dated 25 November addressed to Hutton at the Department of Trade has been passed to this office since it concerns aid for Hong Kong.
2. I wonder if Dr CHUNG has in mind the grant from HMG of £500,000 for the Polytechnic which Mr. Anthony Royle, the Parliamentary Under-Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs announced during a visit to Hong Kong in 1972. This would seem to meet the sort of arrangement which Dr CHUNG has suggested since the money will be spent on British equipment for metrology and quality assurance, together with British books, printing and binding equipment for the Polytechnic's library.
3.
To date only a small proportion (£38,000 approximately) of the total grant of £500,000 has been spent,exclusively on books. Mr Hunting of TETOC (Technical Education and Training Organisation for Overseas Countries) visited the Polytechnic last September with a view to putting forward proposals as to how the money should be spent. These proposals were subsequently considered by the ODM Projects Committee earlier this month and I have delayed replying to your letter until their decision became known. We have now heard that the Committee accepted TETOC's proposals.
4. I hope you will agree that the funds now being released for the Polytechnic will meet the purpose which Dr CHUNG had in mind.
cc:
J Ashwood Esq, Dept of Trade
D F Milton
Hong Kong and Indian Ocean
Department
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