Page
Serial No.
From or to whom.
Despatch No., &c.
Data.
xix
Page.
Subject.
131
143
The Governor
Straits Bettle- ments, 373.
1909.
September 8 (Rec. Oct. 2.)
164
To the Governor
Straits Rettle- ments, 276.
October 15
131
165
To Treasury and
Straits
October 16
War Office.
Settle-
ments.
166
War Office...
Ceylon
October 25
167
To War Office
Ceylon
November 4
148
The Governor
Hong Kong, 300.
October 28 (Rec. Nov. 27.)
169
To Governor
Hong Kong, 313.
December 17
134
Submits proposals for constituting a Hospitals Board and points out that if the proposals are approved the hospital charges at present recoverable will cease to be assessable to defence contribution.
Approves proposals in No. 163 for the creation of a Hospitals Board, but states that the question whether the receipts of the Board should continue to be assessable to military contri. bation must be reserved pending consideration of the whole matter.
Transmits copies of Nos. 163 and 164 ...
Submits observations, in reply to the arguments put forward by the Governor in Nos. 135 and 125, and contends that there is no longer any ground for making the maximum of the Ceylon contribution other than the full cost of the garrison, as in the other Eastern Colonies.
136
137
137
138
Considers that the question of the 139
Ceylon contribution is one which should be discussed by the anggested Inter-departmental Committee and proposes to defer consideration of No. 166.
Transmite memorandum upon the Hong 140
Kong military contribution; submits that the amount of the contribution is fair, but that its incidence fails to give effect to the consideration that it should rise and fall with the Colony's prosperity, and anggests that the con- tribution should be one half the dif- ference between the ordinary revenue and expenditure.
Acknowledges No. 168 with interest and states that should an Inter-depart- mental Committee be appointed his views will receive careful considera- tion.
154
156
The Governor
Strals
June 24
Setjes
| Rre. July 19.)
inetits.
Cof-
Jemal,
War Office
Straits Nettle-
ments.
July 30
158
T War Office
Stude Senle
August 26
139
To Treasury
Straits Settle- inents.
Angust 26
Straits | August 26
160
To War Office
Settle-
ments,
case
Refers to the abolition of the opium and spirit monopolies and presumes that under the new arrangements only the net receipts should be assessed for military contribution, and that in the of the additional sources of revenue which will be necessary to replace the diminished revenue from opium, His Majesty's Government will agree to forgo military contri- bution in regard to receipts from such sources until the income therefrom, together with any grant from His Majesty's Government, exceede the amount of the loss from opium and spirits.
Considers for the reasons stated that receipts from school fees charged in Government schools should continue to be assessed to military contribution; deprecates the marked tendency ex- hibited to depart from the broad rule on which the percentage system of contribution is based.
Regrets inability to agree with the view that school fees should continue to be assessed to contribution, and states that Lord Crewe cannot admit the objections of the Army Concil to the removal from the Estimates of a class of revenge which was included at the time the percentage system of contri- bution was fixed unless they are also prepared to admit that no class of revenue not then included is subject to contribution.
132
Transmits copy of No. 156 and supports 133
claims put forward by the Governor; refers to the growing dissatisfaction in the Colony at the continued increase in the military contribution, and expresses the opinion that the recon- sideration of the whole question of the military contribution of the Eastern Colonies can no longer be postponed ; anggests an Interdepartmental Com-
mittee.
Explains reasons for which Lord Crewe considers that the receipts from Gov- ernment buildings let for profit should be assessed only on net receipts; but he proposes now to raise the whole question of the contributions paid by the Eastern Colonies; encloses copies of Nos. 156 and 159.
States, in reply to No. 159, that upon receipt of the further information indicated the Treasury will be willing to consider an arrangement for the payment of military contribution only on the net revenue from opium and spirits; transmits copy of letter from the War Office strongly recommend- ing that the proposed Committee should not be approved; concurs, and adds that they do not concur in the arrangement under which some receipts which formed part of the general revenue have been excluded from the Estimates.
1910.
170
Treasury
161 The Governor
Hong Kong, 220.
August 4
(Rec. Sept. 6.)
Forwards letter from Treasurer fur- nishing the information asked for in No. 151, na to assessment of "interest" accounts.
Straits Settle- ments.
March 11
135
162
To the Governor
Hong Kong, 216.
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September 22 States that in view of the arrangement already sanctioned it is not possible to accept the suggestion of the Trea- aurer in No. 161 that the interest received
Government balances
on
during the year should be set off against interest on advances for rail- way construction,
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Serial
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Despatch |
No, &c
Date
Yo.
XX
1910.
171
War Oflice
Straits
May 24
172
Ditto
Straits Settle-
May 24
ments.
173
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