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1. I submit a draft reply from the Private Secretary
to a letter of 22 August from the Chairman of the BBC,
Mr George Howard, about the proposed relay station in
Hong Kong, which would improve the audibility of broad-
casting to N. China.
2. This correspondence centres on the question of a
Hong Kong Government contribution towards the costs of
the project.
Mr Howard has written two previous letters
on 25 June and 17 July. He (mistakenly) has the impression
that the Hong Kong Government is prepared to pay a large
proportion, if not all, of the costs. The Secretary of
State's letters of 8 July and 4 August made Hong Kong's
(39) position clear.
(39)
3. Both we and Information Department wish to discourage
any continuation of this correspondence.
is therefore uncontentious and brief.
2 September 1981
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