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2.
In the case of the war office
Yoo will see thats the basis of
genual
the arrangement is that a Colony is his
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bound to provide land-required by the
War Department for defence purposes and
that the War Department has the use of
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in a Colmay
sueh lands/as long as they are required for
defence purposes. On their ceasing to
require them the War Department must
surrender them to the Colonial Government.
The values of lands involved are debited
and credited in the Colony in a Military
Lands Account, and a Memorandum of
Transfer is all that is needed in each
transaction.
34. As you know Hong Kong is under an
obligation to pay a very considerable
annual Defence Contribution which is stated
in the local Ordinance as follows:
Ordinance 2 of 1901.
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Section 3. A sum equivalent to
twenty per cent of the Colonial
revenues shall be appropriated yearly
to the Imperial Government as a
I am not of course in a posite to deal with
merry Smagection that this arrangement regarding inclitary lands would
have
any Air Ministry', requirements.
bearing upon the
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contribution