No.3646/1919.
RECEIVED
11 JUN 1940 0.0. REG
Dear Gent,
53521/408
GOVERNMENT HOUSE,
HONG KONG,
29th May, 1940.
Ref. 4
53521/40
With reference to your letter No.53521/40 of 6th
May, 1940, on the subject of the writing-off of the amount
reimbursed by this Government to Messrs. Mollers' Ltd. in
respect of the propellor and shaft which were accidentally
omitted from the sale of the tug "Kau Sing", I confirm that
the procedure prescribed by Colonial Regulation No.347 and
the Hong Kong Stores Regulations was observed when these
articles were disposed of after being condemned as unserviceable
by a Board of Survey. I regret that this was not made clear
in the despatch.
2.
Mr. Malcolm MacDonald's despatch No.165 of 7th
May, 1940, authorizing the write-off has now been received
and I would point out that it contains a typist's error in
paragraph 2. The amount to be written-off is $859.50 (not
$895.50).
Yours sincerely,
N.L; Sant
G.E.J. Gent, Esq., D.S.O., O.B.E., M.C.,
Colonial Office,
London, S.W.1.
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