retariat file G.11258.
SAVINGRAM
To the Secretary of State for the Colonies.
From the Governor, Hong Kong.
Date
12th
March, 1951....................
No.
289
1950/51 estimates.
Miscellaneous Services
Refunds of revenue.
Finance Committee has approved a supplementary provision of $176,128 under Head 22 subhead 18 in the 1950/51 estimates and I seek your covering approval in accordance with the terms of your despatch No. 302 of
2.
25th September, 1948. you have cap
This supplementary provision is required to adjust the Kowloon Canton railway accounts. A sum of $176,128 was wrongly credited to revenue in 1949/50 in contravention of Colonial Regulation 272, in respect of anticipated payments, which were never received, in connection with the occupation of railway land by the Military Authorities. The practice of crediting general revene with charges made by the railway before they are actually recovered in the railway accounts has now been discontinued.
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