others' observations, covering operation, cost, builda- bility, engineering, architecture and so on. You and others may also care to visit 3 MPS during this period.
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5. I am making arrangements to visit Hong Kong in the week beginning 11 May, with John Partridge, the senior Partner of Howell Killick Partridge and Amis, whom I have asked to act an independent (and unpublicised, at this stage) adviser to us. He has been advising OED since 1984, and has sat on FCO panels on a range of issues: he knows and understands our requirements well and is highly respected outside. would see marked advantage in John Morris coming with us, if he could be spared or had other reasons to be in Hong Kong, on this visit. Our objective will be to begin to draw together all of the doubtless conflicting views, and to form our own, so that, on return (and preferably in the first week of June) I can report to a meeting of your Steering Committee, and explain the proposals to any of the members who had not already seen them. It would then, I suggest, be for your Committee to agree which scheme to recommend to Ministers.
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I hope that you agree that this is a sensible way forward: similar arrangements on other schemes have worked well in the past. I think, finally, that it is worth pointing out from past experience that the whole process of selecting a final design is most effectively done when individuals keep open minds for as long as possible. Six complicated schemes take a lot of absorbing, and too hasty or too narrowly-focussed judgements can get horribly in the way of calm assessment. Fingers crossed
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