Registry
No.
SECURITY CLASSIFICATION
Top Secret.
DRAFT MINUTE
Type 1 +
To:-
Secret.
Confidential.
Mr Burr
Restricted.
Unclassified.
PRIVACY MARKING
ODM Room A527
FROM
DF Milton
Telephone No. Ext.
Department HKIOD
In Confidence
paragraph 3 of Inf his minute of 20 820 August to MR Williams,
a member
TECHNICAL ASSISTANCE GRANTS FOR HONG KONG POLYTECHNIC AND THE TECHNICAL INSTITUTE
1.
Would you please refer to Mr O'Keeffe's minutes of 20 August and 26 September and to your letter of 9 September, 1 concerning the above
grants.
2.
Mr G A Hunting, of TEFOC, visited Hong Kong
To disculos vonious. Wohnical education maltos in September and we have just received a copy of tha
dealing with those contatto grants!
To This draft reportaking with these
draft report We think it is a most comprehensive and valuable report and I am
12° O'Keeffe anticipated hart of a reset by of TETOC to Hong Kong. In the event
From porograph 5 of
Part I
of the Report
forwarding to you since it provides much up to
i date material which should assist
in the
preparation of a case to be put to the Minister før approval of the grants.
B. We have not attempted to isolate any specific sections for consideration, though it can be seen that there is now some urgency about placing the orders for equipment. fact, we hope it will further papers for the 4.thy should add ital
inevitable delays
In consideration of this not be necessary to produce Strengthen our case for direct Ministerial
Projects Committee, with all
We consider Mr Hunting's phasing of expenditure, as included in paragraph 89, to be very optimistic. Even if all the equipment as specified in the annexes was to be ordered in the next 2-3 weeks, very little expenditure would fall into the current financial year. Indeed taking account of delays as
of delays as a result of having to use Crown Agents for procurement may result in a considerable amount of the expenditure slipping into 1977/78.
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