pago
G. I haven't heard the slightest suggestion of that, no. The defence costs agreement has only just been negotiated. It is generally agreed that the level of
garrison agreed in it is right, and the minimum, and there is no suggestion that it
} should be changed.
on liehalf of the
Q. Sir, there have been reported allegations ... Grenada television team which
was here recently was under surveillance while it was in Hong Kong. May I ask you if you are aware of any official surveillance of that television team..
G. No I am not, no.
Q. Sir you will have seen the report in which it was alleged that this television team was subject to surveillance, but may I ask you would cause as to whether this
an enquiry to be made
was
G. No I haven't. But
D.L.S. We did check -no official surveillance was made.
G. No. You did check? Yes. But so far as I can understand, the whole object of
the team was to act in a fairly clandestine way. Isn't this correct?
But I amy
be quite wrong about this you are obviously well informed.
Q. Sir, with resp ect, it seems to me... some importance that it is a well known television network and that if they made these allegations they were under surveillance in Hong Kong, it seems to me it would be of some interest to know whether in fact this
is correct
Lais
G. You heard Mr. La's reply.
Juda
(We have checked they were not under any surveillance at all while they were here.
.. They didn't actually say they were under surveillance they said they saw
funny looking people and things like that.
Q. Sir, may I go back to the question of rates. You mentioned a while ago that they will be half of the 80 per cent and you said
As
G. I didn't say they would be half of 80 per cent, I said it wouldn't even be half of 80 per cent.
Q.
less than half of 80 per cent and there would be a great surprise to all of us
of the exact amount when it is announced.
G. Correction. What I said was, I thought you would be surprised when the figures
were announced that there had been so much fuss now.
Q. What I wanted to ask, sir, is will we have to wait until budget day to know the exact figures.
G. Oh, I think so, yes.
Q. Not before.
G. Oh no, because obviously this figure has to be worked out now against the background of the policy requirements for the p rovision for all the services and so on and what
the outtum for the previous year and expected out-tum for 77-78 is and this s is
simply not known in detail yet.
Q. Well there has been a lot of opposition, or some opposition, over Hong Kong's plans to improve labour conditions, labour reforms. Were you disappointed with opposition