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required to be provided during the course of the next 8 years, as far as can be foreseen, in approximately equal annual instalments.
The Imperial moiety of $551,794 or £87,367 would be provided to the extent of about £35,000 under the I. D. Loan, "Barracks at Coaling Stations", vizt:-
£30,000 already scheduled to Hong Kong.
5,000
possible transfers from other Coaling Stations.
£35,000 = $221,052.
The balance, about $330,742 or £52,367 it is proposed to provide on the Annual Estimates as soon as the expenditure under the I. D. Loan comes to an end.
In order to prepare a definite Scheme it was necessary to consider carefully the whole question of Barrack Accommodation at Hong Kong, and to take into account all that would be required to improve and complete it up to the scale of modern requirements.
This naturally resulted in an Estimate considerably larger than that now submitted, embracing as it did the provision of a Hospital on shore for the Garrison, exclusive of the Indian Regiment, in place of the Hospital Ship "Meenee", and the erection of a considerable
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