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54236/1/47.
J.
Permt. U.S. of S.
Parly. U.S. of S.
Secretary of State.
JUL 1947
Dear Serpell,
D.R. ŞERPELL, ESQ., 0.B.E.
TREASURY.
FURTHER ACTION.
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Gopian iso * -
Accenti Meier Haria
(5)
Staff of Development Secretariat,
Hong Kong.
In your letter to me No.I.F. 16/020
of the 16th June, about the appointment
of a Registrar of Co-operatives in
Hong Kong, you asked me to consider whether
the post ought to be charged to C. D. & W.
Funds, and referred me to the correspondence
between the Colonial Office and the
Treasury on the subject of the principles
which should determine whether new
expenditure in a Treasury-controlled
Colony should be charged against revenue or to the Colony's C. D. & W. allocation.
I had not seen that correspondence
before, but I have now had an
opportunity of looking at it. I observe
that, so far as staff matters are
concerned, the present proposals are,
broadly speaking, that local revenue
or grant-in-aid should bear increases in
establishment necessary to enable
Governments to carry out efficiently
responsibilities not arising from the
Development programme; that the cost of.
new posts arising from the development
programme