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Kong Government would be
responsible for all maintenance
and minor works over the period
of the agreement, no matter what
the cost.
works
4.
(c) There would be virement in capital ▲
expenditure as between one year
and another.
(a) All capital works paid for by Hong
Kong would revert to Hong Kong
if no longer required by Her
Majesty's Government.
I must accordingly ask you to do your
utmost to secure the support of your
for
Executive Council a solution on the
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stressing
above lines using in particular the
ра pants
ruments in paragraph 1 above.
5. I an afraid that this decision will
come as a great disappointment to you. However you are already familiar with the many
There is little that
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arguments previously advanced in support
of Her Majesty's Government's case and with-
which you are already familiar and I
must leave it to you to decide how best to
secure the cooperation of the Unofficial
Members. The following points are
perhaps worth reiterating in your
discretion:
(a) £8 million represents a smaller
Current
proportion of the total costs
of the garrison than did the £5
million contributed by Hong Kong
in 1967/68 and the agreement
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