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MR KISCH

AMP 77/218/01

ec Mr Leach

Sir Leslie Monson

Mr Laird

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EQUIPMENT FOR HONG KONG TECHNICAL INSTITUTES

Mr Kershaw discussed with Sir Michael Walker and myself

this morning #r Royle's draft telegram to the Governor of

Hong Kong about the nature of our offer to provide technical equipment for these institutes. The upshot is that Mr Kershaw

decided that we should undertake to provide from the aid programme aquipment of up to £100,000 for each institute within a maximum of £400,000 total, He also decided that an approach

should be made to industry to ask them to provide additional

equipment, though this should not be communicated to the

Hong Kong Government since if it failed the Hong Kong Government

might then come back and ask us to increase our offer.

also agreed that there was no point in consulting industry until we had established exactly what equipment is required.

Perhaps you will proceed on these lines. If the Hong Kong Government accept the offer we should get our Technical

Education Adviser to agree with the Hong Kong Government on the list of equipment required on the basis of which we can then

approach tha British industry.

Perhaps you will let the DTI know of this decision.

RB M King

17 February 1971