TNAG-1587-FCO40-2171-Future-of-Hong-Kong-British-Consulate-General-1986 — Page 98

DSR 11 (Revised)

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FROM:

PUS

DEPARTMENT:

SECURITY CLASSIFICATION

TO:

Top Secret

Sir Richard Evans KCMG

Secret

Confidential

PEKING

Restricted

Unclassified

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CAVEAT.....

..In Confidence

SUBJECT:

TEL. NO:

Your Reference

Copies to:

RE Holloway Esq

CMG, BTC, Hong Kong

Sir Edward Youde

GCMG MBE, Governor,

thống khung

Mr Galsworthy, HKD

Mr Masefield, FED

Mr Bertram, OED

CONSULATE-GENERAL AND RESIDENTIAL ACCOMMODATION IN

HONG KONG AFTER 1997

1. Thank you for your letter of 19 December.

2.

I, too, was struck when I first saw it by the size of

the suggested establishment for the Consulate-General.

It remains our best estimate at present of what will be

required, and Tony Galsworthy even thinks it may be

slightly on the low side at least for the first year or

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3. We see no overriding need to arrive at a firmer view

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