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there before going on to the Polytechnic. We might then draw up a tentative programme as follows:
1973/74
1974/75
1975/76
Morrison Hill
Polytechnic
£100,000
1976/77
Other technical institutes
Does this seem a sensible arrangment to you? It will be particularly helpful if you could send a short telegram as soon as possible giving us a rough basis of expenditure (for the purpose of the 1973/74 aid framework exercise which should have been completed by 30 November).
5. The allocation agreed in principle for the Folytechnic is £500,000, and the details of the aid project will therefore have to be approved by the ODA Projects Committeek which advises the Minister for Overseas Development on proposals for capital aid or technical assistance projects to which the proposed UK contribution amounts to £400,000 or more. I will therefore be writing to you later for information which I shall need to include in the appraisal paper to be submitted to the Committee.
6. If you agree to concentrate on the Morrison Hill Institute first, you will need to submit to us as soon as possible lists of the books and equipment which Hong Kong wishes to purchase under these technical assistance arrangements. Our standard procedure is for the recipient Government to set out their requests on a form A4, a supply of which I enclose. These are then submitted to the geographical desk officer in London (in this case myself) who clears them with the appropriate Adviser, and then places an order with the Crown Agents. Copies of the approved orders are sent to your Government at the same time as they are passed to the Crown Agents. Perhaps you would let me know to whom they should be addressed. I shall also need to clear the lists of books and equipment for both the teahnical institutes and the Polytechnic with ODA's Technical Education Adviser.
7. The actual phasing of disbursements will obviously depend to a considerable extent on the delivery times once orders are placed; if Morrison Hill will be ready to receive books and equip- ment in the course of 1973/4, we should place orders as soon as possible in order to take up the £100,000 which has been allocated for that financial year.
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If there are any points that you are not too clear about, I shall do my best to clarify them for you.
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M A Goodfellow Hong Kong and Indian Ocean Dept
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