should be recruited in the Punjab for service at
Hong Hong, but the
| Indian kovernment would almost
to our re
certainly object the Punjab for such
unless some
other
recruiting
in
a service, and
source
of supply
necessary
can be adopted it will be
to fall
back
if
on a British Battalion,
the Garrison is to be increased.
The proposed addition to the s Garrison will raise the bapenditure Hong Hong from about £ 160,000 to
at
£ 280,000 a year.
The cost of the additional Barracks
at Hong Hong than £212,000, but as a set off it is proposed to surrender to the Colonial kovernment certain valuable sites in the
is estimated at no less
City of Victoria including
the
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the North Barracks at a valuation
and to devote the proceeds of
Sites towards the cost of
new
the
Barracks. If this course be adopted it
is calculated that the Barracks will
cost £262,000.- less, ray £160,000. the value of the North Barracks site, leaving a balance of £122,000 as the net cost of the additional Barracks. The Committee
on Colonial
Contributions recommend that
one-third of the final cost should be borne by
by
the bolonial, and two thirds the Imperial Government. M?
Stanhope strongly
recommends that
the sites in question should be handed over to the bolony
at a
valuation, instead of this Department
undertaking