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3.

The Governor took the view that it would be

better for the United Kingdom not to take the ini-

tiative in offering aid. It would be preferable

to respond as quickly as possible to a request from

Hong Kong. It was left that the Governor would

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look into the possibilities with

informally.

piato requ

ques!

leging appropriate

А

We now await his pro-

posals. We have told him that the most important

thing, from our point of view, is plenty of warning.

We have reminded him of the ODA's very tight

ceiling for 1972/3, and have said that, if it were

possible to delay payments until after the coming

financial year, this might make the task easier.

The ODA have gubsequently said that they would be

willing to consider reallocating to the Polytechnic,

perhaps for the supply of books, part of the

£400,000 ear-marked for technical institutes.

for navigational arts for the infort,

Lave to make sut

to the Treasury.

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we showell Lobane

at Miniatural level

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