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Audit Department,
Hong Kong.
17th May, 1927.
Sir,
I have the honour to address you with
reference to the Secretary of State's Despatch, Hong
Kong 83 of the 2nd April, 1927, on the subject of
the contribution by the Government of Hong Kong towards the cost of the Singapore Base, enclosing a copy of
Colonial Office Letter No.3004/27 of 29th March from
the Under Secretary of State to the Crown Agents for
the Colonies, in which the Crown Agents are directed
to transfer to the credit of the Hong Kong General Account to sum of £14,617.0.6, representing accrued
interest on the capital sum of the contribution made
by the Government of Hong Kong.
2. It is with considerable diffidence, in
view of the correspondence quoted, that I raise the
question of the transfer to Hong Kong Account of the
interest on the Colony's contribution to the Imperial
Goverment towards the cost of the Singapore Base.
It will, however, be observed on referring to the
correspondence in C.S.0.2921/25 that His Excellency
The Governor, (Sir R. E. Stubbs, K.C.M.G.) made a
definite gift, on behalf of Hong Kong, of the sum of
£250,000. In a telegram dated 9th March, 1925, from the Secretary of State to the Governor of Hong Kong,
The Honourable
The Colonial Secretary,
Hong Kong.
the