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HONG KONG: PROFESSOR TURNER'S STUDY: FINANCING OF STAGE ONE
Mr Stewart
1. In paragraph 4 of my minute earlier today I said that my recollection was that the sum of £14,700 had been set aside for the financing of Professor Turner's study.
2. On checking the papers, I discovered that the estimated cost given in the attachment to Lord Goronwy-Roberts' letter of 14 April
A 1976 to Mr Grant in the ODM was £14,600. (Folio 49a on part B of
HKK 212/548/1). In his letter of 18 May, in which the ODM conceded. that they should finance Professor Turner's study, Mr Judd remarked that some of the fees which it was proposed to pay to Professor Turner were too high and should be re-examined. (Folio 74 on the same part of the file). Subsequently, when Mr Male wrote to Professor Turner (and his two expected associates on the study) on 4 he said that the total payments to be made in connection with the study would be £11,050. (Folio 88a on the same part of the file). Later, when it was decided that the scope of the study should be somewhat changed to include a detailed survey of the opinion of employees in Hong Kong, it was agreed that the total payments should be increased by £2,130. (Mr O'Keefe's minute of 6 July to Mr Fry in the ODM at Folio 121 on part C of the file). Details of the revised payments were conveyed to Professor Turner and his colleagues, who by this time included Dr Fosh in place of Mr Handy, in Mr Janvrin's letters of 15 July (Folio W/136 on part C of the file). In short, the total amount that Professor Turner was told that he and his colleagues would be paid for the study was £13,180 While, therefore, my recollection of the original estimate of the cost of the study was abut right, Professor Turner is virtually correct when he says in his
letter of 22 February to the Governor that the ODM's limit was £13,000.
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Incidentally, as I mentioned to you, Professor Turner is recorded as having said at his meeting with members of the TUC at Congress House on 28 May 1976 that he understood his interim conclusions would be made available for consideration by the Overseas Labour Consultative Committee (paragraph 4 of the OLA's record of the meeting a Folio 83 on part of the file). This is evidence that Professor Turner recognised that the CLCC would have to be involved before any decision was taken to proceed with an extension of the study.
1 March 1977
D.F. Miller
D F Milton
Hong Kong Department K 247
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