STATION.
Service.
Amount.
Observations.
Shanghai.
Funeral expenses.
£2: 2:2
Voucher annexed.
(June Quarter 1933)
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The respective Consular authorities in
Shanghai are responsible, in so faras charitable
sources are not available, for cases of destitution
amongst their own nationals and it is therefore the
practice of the Shanghai Municipal Council to recover
the burial expenses of persons dying destitute in
Shanghai from the appropriate Consulate.
The funeral expenses of destitute British
subjects dying in Shanghai are usually defrayed by
local charities, but in those cases where charities
are not available as e.g., for Indians, the expenses
are met by the Consulate and recovered from the
Colony or Dominion of which the deceased person is
a native.
As the charity concerned declined to bear
the funeral expenses of the late John Maria dos Santos
the Governor of Hong Kong was asked to meet the
expenditure from local funds, but he refused (please
see copies of correspondence annexed) and a request
to the Shanghai Municipal Council to waive the
charge was unsuccessful.
It has been ascertained that the late
John Maria dos Santos left no estate and there is no
possibility of recovering the funeral expenses,
amounting to $34.96 from his relatives. This amount
has therefore been charged in the account with the
Foreign Office and it is suggested that the sterling
equivalent may be reclaimed from the Colonial Office
in London.
(Intld.)
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