CONFIDENTIAL
Nilambar.
سمي
COLONIAL BECRETARIAT
HONG KONG
17th August 1972
minulé
SCR 13/951/68 II
Sear Traction
You wrote to the Governor on 12th July about the understanding reached with the Secretary of State on aid.
2.
You will recall two possibilities were mentioned, namely, something towards the Polytechnic and help with certain navigational aids at the airport. (On the latter I have just seen the recent exchange of letters between Michael Wilford and Glaves-Smith in the D.T.I.). We have now prepared the proposals at Enclosures (1) and (2) for aid towards a library for the Polytechnic amounting to 1964,000 and for training equipment at the airport at a cost of between £150,000 and £200,000.
3.
The first proposal is the more important to us as we feel that H.M.G. should take this opportunity of building and equipping part of the Polytechnic both because of its educational content and the long term British interest. The Polytechnic Board itself had envisaged seeking aid in two forms: aid for the library to be met by H.M.G.; and donations of equipment and laboratories from industrialists in the U.K. and elsewhere. Their reasoning is that industrialists would be willing to supply equipment and machinery as this would provide a form of advertising, which could influence the graduates of the Polytechnic in continuing to use the equipment on which they had been trained. This argument could not be applied to the library. The Board feel, therefore, that there is more chance of industrialists providing equipment than the library; and this means that they look towards H.M.G. to assist in establishing the library. The aid which H.M.G. has offered towards the technical institutes provides a precedent and we hope that the proposal for
/the Polytechnic library
E.O. Laird Esq., C.M.G., M.B.E., H.K. & Indian Ocean Department, Foreign & Commonwealth Office, King Charles Street, London S.W.1.,
England.
CONFIDENTIAL
چی
No comments yet.
Private notes are available after approval.