AG KONG
JUMFIDENTIAL
sir,
Downing Street,
20 July, 1935.
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I have the honour to acknowledge the receipt of
Sir William Feel's Confidential despatch of the 14th kay,
1935 on the subject of the Report of the Economic
Commission, and to refer to the request in paragraph 3 of
the despatch for approval to make a grant, with the consent
of the Legislative Council, to the proposed Hong Kong Travel
Association up to a sum of 25,000 per annum, for the next
three years, as recommended in,aragraph 4 of the Travel Association Committee's Report, should it be decided to set
up such an association.
In my telegram No:74 of the 5th June 1935, I have
already approved the submission to the Legislative Council
of a supplementary vote of $25,000 in respect of the
current financial year. As regards the provision to be
aade in the Estimates for 1936 and 1937, however, I should
be obliged if you would consider whether it is not possible
and desirable that the Government contribution to the
Association should be on a less generous scale. & ben
the time comes to make such provision in the Estimates
you should first submit a further recommendation to me as
to any bun which it may be proposed to include.
I have the honour to be,
sir,
Your most obedient,
THE OFFICER ADMINISTERING
THE GOVERNMENT OF
HONG KONG
humble servant,
(§§a.) MALCOLM MacDONALD