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TREASURY CHAMBERS,
GREAT GEORGE STREET,
LONDON, S.W.1
copies sent to Accts. Dept 15th September, 1948.
Dear Wallace,
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(23) Please refer to your letter of 8th September enclosing a
draft despatch to Hong Kong on the subject of relaxation of Treasury Control over the colony's finances. In the main your (somewhat belated) draft meets our views admirably and we have no comments of consider substance.
We should however be grateful if you would consider the following suggestions :-
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Fara.3(b). You propose to follow the arrangements recently agreed for the African colonies. On the face of it I should have thought that there was a great deal to be said for leaving over this one selected item of the African devolution arrangements until it can be considered, along with the others, in the general review which you envisage should take place next April. cannot but fcel that the adoption of one part of this arrangement now will probably have the effect of prejudicing the outcome of next year's general review which will of course be particularly concerned with these arrangements vis-a-vis Hong Kong.
In any event would it not be advisable to await Hong Kong's reply to your circular despatch of 23rd August before introducing into the colony part of the proposals which form the subject of that despatch?
Para.3(d). A very minor point. Would it not be more in keeping with the tone of the despatch and with the related pronoun in the last sentence of the sub-paragraph to give the Treasury its full title, i.e. "The Lords Commissioners of H.. Treasury"?
W.I.J. Wallace, Esq.
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Colonial Office.
16 SEP 1942
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