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q.
The particulars of the
Governor's offer were passed on to
the Ministry of Public buildings & Works the Ministry of Defence and to the
Treasury and a meeting was held with
those Departments early in September to
consider the matter further. At that
meeting it was decided that a reply should
be sent to the Governor in the form of
a letter to be agreed in draft by the
Departments concerned. We are at present
in the process of endeavouring to reach
agreement on the terms of such a letter
and the matter at present rests with a letter dated 25 September (Annex C) Wilford
addressed by Mr. fred to the other
Departments concerned and enclosing the draft of a letter (Annex D) which
we would be prepared to send to the
Governor. We now await the comments
of the Departments concerned on the terms
(which showed therefore not be shown of the draft letter to al Govenor)
12. We are under considerable pressure
from the Ministry of Defence and the
Treasury to urge the Governor to
increase his offer of/8 million pounds.
The former have recently sent us revised
figures for the recurrent costs of the garrision Annex E) which are to
be **En sent on to the Governor.
Although these figures are based on an army element of 62
major units
62/3
they nevertheless show an increase over the figures previously provided (Annex A)
The Ministry of Defence state that the
main reasons for this increase are the
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