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following few heads:-
* Done (i)
(ii)
(iii)
(iv)
Salaries of staff employed either on
administrative accounting duties including those engaged on planning.
Salaries of other officers, i.e., those
awaiting absorption or in receipt of allowances to bring present pay up to Colony rate,
Pensions and gratuities.
Maintenance grants.
(a) Australia
(b) Macao
(c) Chungking.
(v)
Relief expenditure
(vi)
Miscellaneous.
Once this estimate had been approved we should
wish to be given a free hand to incur expenditure from
the provision without prior reference to you provided we
were satisfied that the payments to be made were in
strict accordance with Hong Kong legislation or regulations
or with arrangements separately approved by the Treasury
in the past.
abready
cured by bgislatul in other approval)
If, however, expenditure arose during the year,
for which no provision, or insufficient provision, had been
made, we should like to have authority to incur this without
prior sanction provided the amount involved did not exceed
a certain figure and no question of principle or policy
was involved.
If a question of principle or policy were involved,
it would be understood that we came to you for prior sanction.
The limit up to which we could incur expenditure without
prior reference to. you might be fixed at £5,000 on any individual item or up to an aggregate of, say, £50,000 for
the year;
La £100.000
this would apply to both recurrent and non-
recurrent items.
Any