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$525.00 = $2.287.70)
2. The War Office do not understand your statement, in the first paragraph of your saving No. 285 of 5th March, 1950, that the balance on the Whampoa Dock Company Account, viz. $2812.70 (War Office figure $2812.70 was paid by the Dock Company after the 31st March, 1949 and was due to the Hong Kong Government: and as shown above, request payment of $2.287.70.
·3.
In the final paragraph of your savingram No 1345 of the 18th December 1950 you assume that the balance outstanding on the B.M.A. Account will be written off. In this connection the War Office have drawn attention to the following outstanding balances which, together with the remarks, have been extracted from the statement enclosed in your savingram No. 525 of the 6th July 1949:-
Advances of salary
to Staff
70,551.39
No further recoveries possible
Bailey and Co. Ltd.
109,035.62
do
C.N.R.R.A.
120,060.53
There was no written guarantee of repayment and recovery is still und er query. It is possible that a small portion of the balance will be recovered.
/A. E. Phillips