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an earlier stage that the total cost looked like being somewhere "about HK$450 m.". The difference between that figure and
HK$460 HK 460 m., which is given in para. 7 of the draft statement as the equivalent of £43.5 m., is not so very great. I gather that the comparatively small difference in the amount of Hong Kong dollars represented by the jump from £39-40 m. to £43.5 m. is due to changes in exchange rates to the disadvantage of sterling. Finally, Mr Andrew said that it could be assumed that the Commander of the British Forces and his staff would have kept the Governor au fait with the changing figures. For these reasons, therefore, I do not think that we should press the MOD to telegraph the new figure of £43.5 m. te Hong Kong in advance of Mr Rodgers's visit.
22 October 1975
D.F. Meiller
D F Milton
Hong Kong & Indian Ocean Dept.
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Tuasury over the warding of this paragraph, but ask him is mund the Rodgers of the Govenor's advice. A nue oblique reference might be used in the opening phase, fuller maternal being kept for later exchanges.
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