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RECORD OF CONVERSATION BETWEEN THE FOREIGN AND
COMMONWEALTH SECRETARY AND THE GOVERNOR OF HONG KONG
HELD AT THE HOUSE OF COMMONS ON MONDAY 24 JUNE 1974
AT 3.30 P.M.
Present:
The Rt. Hon. James Callaghan MP
Lord Goronwy-Roberts
Sir Murray MacLehose
Sir Duncan Watson
Mr M Wilford
Mr A Acland
Mr A C Stuart
Mr A Galsworthy
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Mr Callaghan said he would like to put formally on record his congratulations to the Governor for his work in Hong Kong.
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2. Sir Murray MacLehose said that a garrison must be retained in Hong Kong for internal security purposes; but any proposal that Hong Kong should pay more would strain their finances, already heavily committed on new social expenditure. An agreement that they should continue to pay about the present £8 million a year might be negotiable, even though, with a reduced garrison, this might form a greater proportion of the total cost. But the troops would
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have to be the cheapest possible. This meant keeping the Gurkhas, who cost only a quarter as much per head as British soldiers. At the same time some
UK forces would have to be retained in order to keep
the British character of the garrison.
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