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5. From the foregoing you will appreciate that there seems to us be li tle reason for the Hong Kong Government, having accepted liability for the costs of stores for "Spring Clean", rejecting the costs of stores and I emphasise it is only the costs of stores, under "Highland Bonnet".
-6.
Apart from the border works there is one other small item of £118 which was impossible to settle locally. This was referred to in previous correspondence sent to you as Additional Allowances for Hong Kong Other Ranks. These payments were small allowances, intended to cover the extra cost of food etc, admissable when these troops were detained at their place of duty overnight. This being a legitimate extra cost claim was submitted to the Hong Kong Finance Committee but, having been rejected by them, it became an irritant and impediment to settlement of the larger issues and our Command Secretary decided it should be withdrawn on "de minimis" grounds.
7. Thus, taking account of the payment notified to you in my letter of 10th December we are left with outstanding extra costs of:-
(i) Stores for fence
and (ii) their movement from Singapore
(iii)Stores for border works
(iv) Additional allowances for HKOR
158,237
15,103
20,691
118
£194,149
and I should be glad to hear from you in the near future that the FCO are willing to make payment of this sum to the MOD.
Yours sincerely
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G. J. GAMMON
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