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+E CONFIDENTIAL.
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42376
REC
REG 5 SEP 16.
GOVERNMENT HOUSE,
HONGKONG.
27th. July, 1916.
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Onclosure !.
Sir,
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With reference to my Confidential Despatch of
the 15th. December last, I have the honour to transmit a statement
of expenditure incurred on account of the war for the year 1915 amounting to $253,029.85.
Enclosure 2
2.
The trustees of the Club Germania have recently
paid to the Government a sum of $1,248.44 being the amount me for
rates less amounts payable by the Government for the use of a
portion of the building for seventy days last year.
3.
I also enclose a statement of the expenditure
incurred on account of the war during the first five months of the
year. This statement shows recurrent expenditure of 291,916.08 and
non-recurrant expenditure of $168,413.92, mand an estimate for the
whole year based on the average recurrent expenditure for those
months of $249,399.36 or a total of 8417,813.28. There are, how-
-ever, three items not inserted. The first is the cost of main-
-tenance of the Prisoners of War in Australia for which no accounts
have yet been received. It is expected that this will amount to
about £1,000 a month for 10 months or a sum of £10,500. The second
is the cost of the Camp buildings in Australia, which may amount to
£1,000. The third is the cost of sending further prisoners of war to
Australia, which will probably not exceed £1,500. These three items
swell the total probable expenditure for the current year to about
2550,000.
HE RIGHT HONOURABLE
ANDREW BONAR LAW, M.P
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