2.
DAE-/29033/11
Tree/141436/12
Cast
4.0.
3357/4/21
по
1924
1925
1926
1927
1928
$22,147,951
27,287,862
54
27,998,257
...
29,016,439
50,395,447
penamb
and the military contribution based on 12 of the annual valuation made during the previous year would be:-
1925
1926
...
1927
1928
1929
4.
ん
$2,657,754
3,274,543
3,359,788
3,481,973
3,647,454.
The three years prior to 1926 were for this Colony, years of plenty while the immediate future seems likely to be, for some years to come, one of difficulty. The surplus funds accumulated in the last decade are becoming exhausted and recourse is now being made to loans for
financing urgent public works. There have previously been many requests for consideration with a view to reduction of the contribution and I would refer you to Sir F. Lugards
ti despatch of 3rd August, 1911, asking for relief over certain
items.
In Mr. Harcourt's Confidential despatch of 17th May, + 1912, it was stated that the question of military contribut- ion paid by the Eastern Colonies would be further considered and that a Committee had been appointed to enquire into the operation of the methods upon which the military contributions
In r. Winston
#
paid by Crown Colonies were being assessed. Churchill's despatch No.233 of 15th August, 1921, it was
stated that the Committee reported to the Treasury in 1914 but the war intervened to prevent any further action and the matter has since been in abeyance.
+ + ho 29083/ 11.
+ ho. 14436/12. & ho. 33574/21
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