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I should be glad to receive your covering authority
for these advances and for other loans on similar terms
which it may be considered advisable to make to approved
officers from time to time.
Housing accommodation suitable for senior officers is
difficult to obtain at a reasonable rental, while Government
quarters are available for only approximately twenty five per
cent of officers eligible to occupy them. I consider it
therefore desirable that every encouragement should be
given to those who are prepared to build suitable houses
for their own occupation in the European residential areas.
3. I would add that the Government has in the past
made similar advances although these do not appear to have
been reported to you at the time.
I attach a return giving particulars of loans to
five Government officers amounting in all to $50,027.0de
of which a sum of $1,710.04 remains outstanding.
I have the honour to be,
Sir,
Your most obedient, humble servant,
Hue
Governor, &c.
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