£300

a year.

1.e.

from C. M. 8.5.vote?

aee You 53611/15/48).

P. Pothenich

12/10.

Igalle not franchisth

Mr Sidelotham

I think we may accept the Bryant's figures. Mrs Pathered

has panted out a discrepancy in the Univerity figures but the Bayant - are his min of 28" July 54147/61.

is aluady

of this

of it is pomble to increase the prosses for 1951-52 from £150,000 to £185.600 me shubh do so. If not the Unversity will have to wait until 1952/53 to recoup any expenditure in exces of the £180,000,

difficulties will not arive in the care

+ I Mode debt whether in Ant

hi. Bryant.

Similar

of the C.D. W. postem of the grant

need

worry

at this stage.

Jopee.

13/10.

Hall

12/10,

Mr. Dodd. Mr. Hall.

I am afraid that I may not have made myself entirely clear in the minute opposite with regard to the provision for a loan to the Government of Hong Kong for the purchase of an airfield and that I may, therefore, have misled you into the true intention of that minute.

In so far as 1952/53 is concerned we previously gave a forecast to the Treasury that we anticipated expenditure of £500,000 during that year on this project and that this rate of expenditure was likely to be continued in 1953/54.

We now have to determine whether the figure of £500,000 for 1952/53 will in fact be reised since

we now

musare quereparing the estimates for that year and

what firm figure of expenditure we

must provide for.

In the current year, i.e., 1951/52, we only included a token provision of £10 in order to secure the approval of Parliament to the project. We can only include in the 1952/53 estimates a sum sufficient to cover the actual grant which the Government of Hong are likely to require during the

/year

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