DRAFT SAVINGRAM 35

GOVERNOR

HONG KONe

54337/48

Isme

1519

Стели - на

minte

FOR MINISTRY OF TRANSPORT CONCURRENCE

Ansd. (8) on '49

130

1",

(9)

(1)

1.

Your savingram No. 543.

Harbour craft.

In the course of discussion the

Ministry of Transport have pointed out that in

addition to the craft included in the list

accompanying your despatch No. 19 of the 30th

January 1948, for which the Ministry of Transport

are the disposal authority, there are also in use

by the Hong Kong Government certain other craft

belonging to, or at one time belonging to, the

Admiralty and the War Office.

2.

These other craft were included ( as well

as Ministry of Transport craft) in lists submitted

by the Director or Marine (then Harbour Master)

Hong Kong to the Ministry of Transport in 1947.

The total valuations for the orart given by the

Director of Marine on those lists were :-

Ministry of Transport

£143,950

Admiralty

£180,850

War Office

£52,400

3.

It appears that, as a result of

correspondence with the Ministry of Transport, one

vessel (VIC 41) was transferred from the Admiralty

Jotiktin

camis

Mh.A. J. Jms - Rinishy of Transpal

Col. Russell Edmunds

Treasury

list

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