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Mr.
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Mr. Bryant
Mr. Male
Mr.
Mr.
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Secretary of State,
Your Reference...
DRAFT.
Dear Sir Patrick,
Prof. Sir Patrick
Abercrombie, M.A., FrR.I.B.A.
(1)
29th January 1948.
I have now had the
advice of Our Chief Accountant about
your letter of the 4th January
regarding the expenses of your recent
visit to Hong Kong.
2. In the first instance,
apart from your subsistence allowance.
£42 and
which is calculated at 24and which
covers approximately your hotel expenses
(not including tips, which are not
normally admitted), we can meet your
provided
incidental expenses they are
itemised and vouched as far as prac-
-ticable or covered by a personal
certificate of expenditure.
We could
FURTHER ACTION.
not hope, therefore, to be able to
secure authority to re-imburse you the following items in your statement item without
furthes
niformation
1. Journey out from London
to Hong Kong, insplantal
4. Daily expenses at £1 per
day, 35 days
4 12
6
35
0 0
6. Return journey to
London, incidental
2 10 0
3. Do you think you could
let me have an itemised list covering
surna
these three tes, so that we can go