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DOI OF TRYING ON HIM WHAT HE THOUGHT BB WERE TRYING ON THE DEPARTMENT.
3. SIR LAWRENCE HAD BEEN INSTRUCTED BY HIS BOARD NOT TO DO ANYTHING
IN DISCUSSION WITH THE UK WHICH WOULD PREJUDICE CLP'S GOINT TO INTERNATIONAL TENDER. HOWEVER, HE HAD DECIDED TO PASS TO US CLP'S
BREAKDOWN OF THEIR ESTIMATED PRICE. HIS BOARD DID NOT KNOW HE WAS DOING THIS, AND IT MUST NOT BE USED AGAINST HIM BY THE UK. (IT LATER EMERGED THAT THE FIGURES HAD ALREADY BEEN PASSED TO DOI BY
STONES, AFTER DISCUSSION WITH SIR LAWRENCE). THE FIGURES WERE FOR DOI ONLY. IT WOULD HAVE BEEN HIGHLY UNETHICAL FOR CLP TO PASS THEM
TO THE CONTRACTOR.
4. IF THERE WAS NO CHANGE IN THE UK'S POSITION, SIR LAWRENCE
ADVISED JOHN LIPPITT NOT TO COME. IT WOULD BE EMBARRASSING FOR
HIM AND WOULD LOOK WORSE IF A CLP REFUSAL HAD TO COME TO HIM
PERSONALLY DURING HIS VISIT. HE ADVISED LIPPITT TO WAIT UNTIL THE
MATTER WAS ADJUSTED, AND IF IT COULD NOT BE RESOLVED IT WOULD BE
BETTER TO LET THE UK PROPOSAL FADE. AT ANOTHER POINT HE SUGGESTED
THE PROBLEM SHOULD BE QUOTE 99 PERCENT SORTED UNQUOTE BEFORE
LIPPITT CAME.
5. KADOORIE ALSO SUGGESTED 6 NOVEMBER MIGHT PERHAPS BE TOO SOON.
CLP WOULD DO THEIR BEST TO DELAY FOR A BIT IF IT WOULD BE PROFITABLE: BUT IF THERE WAS NO REAL HOPE OF PROGRESS THEY SHOULD
BE TOLD AS SOON AS POSSIBLE, SINCE THEY WOULD HAVE TO GET OTHERS
IN QUICKLY.
LINKS WITH HONG KONG ELECTRIC.
6 IN AN EXTENDED DIGRESSION SIR LAWRENCE DISCUSSED THE EFFECTS
ON CLP AND ON UK PROJECTS OF LINKS WITH HKE. THE FINANCIAL SECRETARY HAD AT A RECENT MEETING STRESSED TO HIM THAT INTEGRATION
HAD TO COME.
7. SIR LAWRENCE READ EXTRACTS FROM A HONG KONG GOVERNMENT DOCUMENT DESCRIBING EXCO'S APPROACH TO THE QUESTION. THE DOCUMENT (EXCO
MINUTES ?) INCLUDED THE FOLLOWING POINTS..
8. EXCO HAD BEEN MOST INSISTENT, IN GRANTING PERMISSIONS FOR LAMMA AND TAP SHEK KOK (CASTLE PEAK), ON INTERCONNECTION BY 1982, IE WHEN THE FIRST SETS AT THE TWO STATIONS CAME ON STREAM.
FURTHER INSTALLATIONS THEREAFTER - PREFERABLY INCLUDING LATER SETS AT THESE TWO SHOULD BE IN ACCORDANCE WITH AN INTEGRATED INVESTMENT PROGRAMME.
9. EXCO HAD NOT MADE PLANNING PERMISSIONS CONTINGENT ON