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FOR MACDONALD I C 2. YOUR INDUS 33. POWER STATION PROJECT.

STONES, WHILE APPRECIATING YOUR ANXIETY TO SUBMIT GEC PRICES TO INDEPENDENT ANALYSIS, HOPES THAT YOU WILL PUT THE PROPOSAL TO CLP AS SOON AS POSSIBLE. HE BELIEVES THAT PRICES QUOTED IN LONDON WERE ''WT PERCENT TOO HIGH''. HE, OBVIOUSLY, WOULD PREFER THE EARLY SUBMISSION OF A LOWER PRICE BUT TOO LONG A DELAY COULD CREATE SERIOUS PROBLEMS FOR CLP'S TIME TABLE GIVEN THAT WE ARE ONLY TWO MONTHS AWAY FROM THE DESIGNATED CONTRACT DATE.

2. YOUR PARA 3(1). NEITHER STONES NOR I COULD IDENTIFY THE DOCUMENT WHICH YOU HAVE IN LONDON. STONES CLAIMS THAT HE HAD ONLY TWO SHEETS OF PAPER WITH HIM WHEN HE MET YOU. COULD YOU PLEASE BE MORE PRECISE ABOUT YOUR DOCUMENTARY REQUIREMENTS. STONES IS DISPOSED TO BE HELPFUL BUT IS NOT QUITE SURE EXACTLY WHAT YOU ARE

SEEKING.

3. YOUR PARA 3(11). STONES WAS QUITE CLEAR THAT HE WISHED PACKAGE TO INCLUDE SUBSTATIONS. HE SEEMED DISTURBED THAT ONLY BALFOURS WOULD BE INVITED TO BID FOR WHAT WILL, IN EFFECT, BE TEN SEPARATE TRANSMISSION PROJECTS WITH COMPLETION DATES RANGING FROM 1981-1987 AND COSTING ABOUT HK DOLLARS 1,200 MILLION. HE ENQUIRED WHETHER YOU HAVE CONSIDERED EMPLOYING OUTSIDE CONSULTANTS SUCH AS KENNEDY AND DONKIN TO DESIGN THE WHOLD TRANSMISSION SYSTEM.

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