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Registry HXK 27. DRAFT
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PRIVACY MARKING
LETTER
To: C P Haddon-Cave, Esq
In Confidence
Type 1 +
From
Telephone No. & Ext.
Department
Hong Kong
Thank you for your letter of 29 October
concerning ATC Capability at Kai Tak and the CDW
Fund. I fully agree that this loose end should be
tied up, and apologise that this was not done sooner,
As you yourself mention, in November 1969 we
did not quite close the door on the possibility of
Hong Kong receiving C D & W aid for radar equipment
at Kai Tak, but we then stated that it was very
unlikely that the application would succedd, and that
it would be
be even more prejudiced by a decision on your pr
part to purchase other than British equipment. Your
reply in Telegram No 870 of 14 November 1969 that you
would probably purchase Italian equipment was enough
to ensure that FCO support was insufficient to overcome
strong opposition from the ODA and the DTI
who,
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as you- we well know, already regarded- Hong Kong as
being low on the list when it comes to aid.
When early this year we saw in the Hong Kong press
that the contract had been definitely awarded to
Selenia we did in fact think it best to allow the
matterto lapse. While, as in the recent granting of
traffic rights to Heng-Kong- KLM in Hong Kong, Hong Kong
interests have been met, I am afraid that I cannot
hold out any great hopes that future applications for
aid in the civil aviation field will be granted.
However, you may be assured that we shall continue
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