1. rapidly expended. When this sum is exhausted, the lotholders of these two sections will have to pay calls made from time to time, but only as the money may be required.

5. "The only sum which can be regarded as a margin, therefore, is $261,000, out of which salaries etc. will have to be paid. This sum, equal to about £40,000, will be undisturbed for about two and a half years, and, for only about two. In view of the ready assistance and cooperation which have at all times been accorded to this Government by the Hongkong and Shanghai Bank, it is, I venture to think, very questionable whether it is necessary to withdraw such funds connected with the Praya Reclamation Scheme as may be in the custody of this...

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