Mr. Wilford
Mr. Godden
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MINISTERIAL COMMITTEE ON HONG KONG
Hong Kong: Long Term Study
A meeting of the Hong Kong Committee has now been fixed for
.30/ 10a.m.
Friday, 8 May at 10a.
2.
The Brief prepared for the Secretary of State last March has
been brought up to date
(a) by deletion of "(which is very much in our own aviation
interests)" in the ninth sentence of paragraph 5 and
substitution of "(which it has been decided, having
regard to other claims on our funds, we cannot pursue
at present)";
(b) by deletion of "(the next Governor should be in office by
(c)
the end of the year)" at the end of paragraph 8;
by the deletion of paragraph 18 "An approach to other
departments at ministerial level is under consideration.
Mention of the project in this Ministerial Committee might
help such an approach", and substitution of "The Hong Kong
Government has decided to go ahead with this project with
or without our assistance. In the circumstances and
having regard to other claims on our funds it has been
decided not to press the issue with other departments at
the present time but to hold out to Hong Kong the possi-
bility of assistance at a later stage of the project.
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