Crainance
a
reasonable one; and
deed it appears
~ from
the 3rd Enclosure of your Despatch that
the interval has in
been
previono years of longer durations 1. On the other hand Iginlagree with
you
that it is desirable
the
that the original Estimates for a year. should be made as
complete as
possible
in the pot instance
so do to avoid the
necessity
503
necessity for sup=
aplementary Estimates,
that this cannot.
and
bedone if they
are
prepared and passed
at a period long anterion to that to which they relate 5 The practice which
you say prevails in Hong Kong of framing the Estimates
for the sincceeding year on the basis of the actual Returns of the first six months of the
preceding year appears
to