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4.
Reference has been made to new airports for Hong Kong
in the notes for supplementaries because Mr Parry has in the
past asked questions about this against a background of
suggestions that the finance for such an airport would not be
forthcoming because of the expiry of the Lease on the New
Territories.
5. The draft reply and notes for supplementaries have been
cleared with Hong Kong and Peking.
R D Clift
10 June 1980
Hong Kong and General Department
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