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Mr. Wallace 24/11
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GOVERNOR, HONG KONG.
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9XT 1948
No.1236
Restricted. Confidential.
Secret.
Top Secret and Personal.
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I am very grateful for your reproty. The
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Your Confidential savingram No. 699.
Financial position and policy.
1. I am most grateful for your Report.
2.
Paragraphs 1 and 2. I note that the
total of all revenue for the first 6 months
of the financial year is approximately
Than
$6 million more and half the estimated revenue
for the year, yet the total of revenue for
the first six months under the principal
Heads quoted is more than $1 million less
than half the estimated revenue for the year
against the same Heads. This presumably means
that a number of comparatively unimportant
Heads have yielded more than was estimated.
3.
I note that
Paragraph 8. It is encouraging that you
are expected
are able to expect considerable savings/under
bust that these will many Heads of expenditure provided for in the
be offer by additional expenditure not provided
Estimates.
4.
in the bathinates.
Paragraph 9. I agree with your intention
to discharge as many of Hong Kong's outstanding
liabilities as possible during the current year
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without thereby incurring any deficit.
5.