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Loone Government should maintain the R.N.V.R. up to the level of its peace establishment as mobilised, any additional personnel and vessels being maintained by
the Admiralty.
Union of South Africa.
The Admiral y also mentioned that here the Dominion Government wre paying for any services which they themselves explicitly authorised, but that the Admiralty were paying the rest, whether it was incurred in respect of the defence of the Union or genorally.
dalaya.
In Singapore it was aesumed that the Colonial Government were paying, since the Admiralty hed received no claims, and presum bly the Governor would not here raised the point if the Admiralty were already paying.
3. As a general principle the Admiralty view was
that a Colony which and established and maintained a 2.N.V.R. force in peque should continue to be responsible for the cost of its m‹intenance in war, apart from any considerations to the contrary. But contrary considerations might often be import int; in particular, it was right to look to the use to which the force was put and the Colony's capacity to pay, In the Admiralty view, the placing of the force at His Majesty's disposal did not in itself affect the incidence of oost and it was in that view that Section 3 of the Celonial Naval Derence Act, 1931, had been framed se provide that nothing in that Act or in any Order in Ocmctl made under it should be taken to authorise the payment out of the revenues of the United Kingdom of any expenses incurred in equipping or maintaining any vessel officers Or mon placed at the lisposal of Das Majesty under the Act,
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