That decision
represented a esage of policy
the division
responsibility as Betrouens intonat
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7. The Hong Kong Government's reply to
this argument is that the works under
"Spring Clean" were carried out with the
agreement and in fact on the initiative of
the Hong Kong Government and liability for
them was accepted by that Government under
the policy decision of March 1968.
There
ズ
was no reason why that policy decision should
be antedated to cover the cost of the works
carried out in 1967 under Exercise "Highland
Bonnet".
Additional allowances for Hong Kong Other
Ranks. These payments were small
allowances (amounting to £118 in all)
intended to cover the extra cost of food
etc admissible when these troops were
detained at their place of duty overnight.
The claim for this amount was put to the
Hong Kong Finance Committee who disallowed
it on the grounds that the expenditure
incurred was not considered a fair charge
to public funds. In view of this and
since this small item constituted an
irritant and an impediment to the settlement
of the larger issues, the local Military
authorities in Hong Kong decided to withdraw
the claim "on de minimis" grounds.
the Ministry of Defence have recently
However,
revived their claim for the reimbursement
of this amount.
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