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Northcote will telegraph about this and t he is more likely to write. the pesten.
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think th
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may also ha
in any went
be cleared up by the Estimates for the coming year which
amort
were forwarded to us in January but have not yet turned
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have sent Hong Kong
reports of the Financial Secretary's speech on these
Which gave some relwant premation, viz
estimates for the 17 m of Jamiary).
finden
(1) that local defence expenditure in the past year which
at the time the offer to build vessels for the Admiralty was
made, was estimated at $2,000,000
$2,000,000,) in the event nearly!
reached $12,000,000, in addition to gifts to His Majesty's
It puts the
Government in cash of £400,000.
matter of the inėsweepers in the proj Proportion. tones and
(2) that the estimates for 1941-42 include $5,220,000 for
the construction of vessels to be presented to the Admiralty
and the War Department in respect of which no expenditure
has been incurred in the present year.
Treasu
3 weeks.
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you agres
the Estimates.
I hope that this information might assuage the do
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sine for knowledge for a little longer him for
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to the receives before I remming Norther WBL. Monson & his promise to look at the post