TNAG-0254-FCO40-290-Contributions-of-Hong-Kong-for-costs-of-maintaining-military-1971 — Page 86

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NOTHING TO BE WRITTEN In this MARGIN

E.H.A.Stretton,

M.P.B.W.

May

Esq.

SECRET

LETTER

DRAFT

To:-

E.H. Gwynn, Esq., C.B.,

Ministry of Defence, Main Building,

Whitehall, S.W.1.

Type 1 +

From

Sir L. Monson

Telephone No. & Ext.

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Department

5/8

Hong Kong Defence Contribution.

Would you please refer to your letter of 18 May.

I have now had a reply from the Governor to the

letter, of which I enclosed a copy in my letter to you

of 11 June.

Although a considerable amount of work has been

done on this exercise in Hong Kong,the Governor says

that there are so many imponderables in the available

data (particularly as regards capital costs) that he and his officiels

hey have been unable to arrive at any logical total

figure for their contribution which can be based on

the cost of the garrison. He has, therefore, suggest-

ed a figure which he thinks he may be able to put

over locally without regard to any other considera-

tions. This figure is £8m. per annum for the period

of this, a maximum of

of a five year agreement;

£2m. per annum would, in the Governor's words, "be

earmarked for non-recurrent capital works, these

works to remain the property of the Hong Kong Govern-

ment and to be selected from works which are agreed by

this Government to be of potential value to Hong

Kong if no longer needed for use by the Services."

The Governor has also suggested that the arrange-

ment should be considered to be a basically stable

one running for five years and subject to review only

if the garrison is increased or decreased by the

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