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that much of the misapprehension and consequent dissatisfaction regarding the Military Contribution may be allayed.
It would enable me to make a useful comparative statement (should I find that to be pertinent when I have the figures) if Your Lordship's Department could add to this statement the amount of the Gross Revenue, the Ordinary Revenue and the Ordinary Expenditure of the Colonies named for each of the years referred to.
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I am in this connection endeavouring to prepare a corresponding table shewing the amount paid out of Revenue by those Colonies which provide their own defence, more especially of those whose frontiers are co-terminus with the territory of a foreign State such as the African Colonies and Protectorates (Sierra Leone, Gold Coast, Southern and Northern Nigeria, East Africa and Uganda, Nyasaland, Rhodesia and Bechuanaland), British Guiana, the West Indies, &c., but I find it difficult to do so with the materials at my command.
I should be glad if Your Lordship should see fit to direct that this statement should be furnished to me by the Colonial Office. It would in that case bear a higher authority than one prepared from insufficient data by myself. The figures I require are Total Gross