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Dear Masterton,
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Treasury Chambers,
Whitehall.
12 June, 1923.
You may perhaps be aware that a dispute has been going on between the War Office and the
Hong Kong authorities about certain military lands there. The general idea seems to be that the Colony
want the Jar Office to clear out of certain barracks etc. which are situated in the busiest commercial quarter. The War Office are willing to do so provided the
crent Colony agrees to ==== Rem the value of the accommodation
they surrender with a view to re-providing from it
up-to-date accommodation elsewhere for the troops, the war office claiming that the Colony should pay
the actual cost of re- -provision of accommodation even
if it should be more than the valuation.
The particular point on which I invoke
your aid arises from the arrangements for valuation
of the existing War office property.
Stubbs is
apparently in a position to claim that the local
Sir James Masterton Smith, K.C.B.
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