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Colonial office.
Dr Woodman, Ledical Officer, Hong Kong has been
over here with a note from you concerning his passage to
Hong Kong: He is very anxious to go by the Nippon boat
of the 27th of March aid pay the difference in cost out of
his own pocket, but after consult ing someone in the
Eastern Department of the Colonial Office I told him he
must go by P. & 0. He then asked me to refer the matter
to you again and said he himself would write to the
Colonial office.
The difficulty about allowing him to pay the
extra cost is that to do so means divulging the confidentia
rebate arrangement with the P. & 0. Co. and you may
remember fairly recent correspondence with the Federated
Lalay States on this point.
Dr Woodman wants four pussages and the cost by ippon
would be about £228, and by P. & 0. (intermediate)
£216 £54 = £162,a difference of 256 of which £54 is
accounted for by the rebate.
The P. & 0. intermediate bonts go on 20th March and
17th April and I understand that Dr Woodman considere
one date too early and the other too late. There is a
P. & 0. mail boat going n 3rd April and the cost by thie
would be about £256
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264 =
£192.
Marroch M. Dept.
c. a. 8.31515