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9th July, 1934.
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Dear Gent,
I am not sure if you are still looking after the
affairs of Hong Kong, but if not perhaps you would direct
this letter into the right channels.
You will remember the protracted correspondence
which our two Departments sustained recently with regard to
the question of the exemption of certain items of the
revenue of Hong Kong from assessment to military contribution:
that correspondence ended with your letter 92622/32 of 8th
March, 1933. One of the principal matters with which the
correspondence dealt was that of the projected new loan of
$28,000,000 which it was understood the Colony were shortly
to raise for general development purposes. In the schedule
of that loan as set out in your letter of 19th August, 1932,
there appeared an item of $5,000,000 for the redemption of
the 1927 6% Hong Kong loan. This last was, you may recall,
the one exempted from assessment to military contribution by
section 15 of Ordinance No. 14 of 1927, an exemption to which
the War Office took strong exception and pressed to have
eventually, partly by reason of the declared
repealed;
G.E.J. Gent, Esq., D.S.O.,M.C.,
Colonial office,
S. W. 1.
intention
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