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Kr. Beaty.
should value your om views and those of Universities and Techni Käuestion Department in relation to paragraph 3(a) of Mr. W.S. Carter'a
aiuto attached.
2. The Hong Kong Goverment has recently considered whether to apply to join the Colombo Plan and sought our advies. They have not gone ahead with this proposal, no doubt because they recognise that in the context of Asia as it is at the moment they would be expected to be much more of a donor than s recipient government. Suggestions have often been made that training places in Hong Kong would provide a practical and economic fom of technical assist ance in many fields; but we have always understood that the pressure un training places there by Hong Kong's own population is severe.
3. In theory, howeber, it would be perfectly possible to provide a third country training in Hong Kong, as indeed we did for a number of years în Singapore before indepenience. This would mean Hong Kong providing the training places, and we would pay approved trainees from different parts of Asia who took up the placṣā. We could not under Colombo Plan contribute to the capital cost of the now training centre in Hong Kong, and I do not know whether this would qualify for G.B. & E. funds.
be I am mimuting this to you, however, because I understand that a Hr. Frescott called on you recently to discuss some such project in the field of town planning. Clearly this is a field where Hong Kong has plenty of practical experience to affer; and therefore if any sort of regional training centre is over to be set up in long Kong, tom planning should be high on the list for consideration.
(D.C. Mandeville)
28 February, 1967.
0.0. Mr. Maby
Mr. F.J. Staith,
Er. W.ộ. Carter, Commonwealth Office.
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