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LEGISLATIVE COUNCIL

BONG BONG

Meeting to be held on Thursday, 10th October, 1947, at 9.80 p.m.

ORDER OF BUSINESS

1. Confirmation of Minutes of meeting held on 2nd October, 1947.

2. Questions.

3. Motions.

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Questions,

The Honourable Lo Man-kam, 0.8.D., pursuant to notice, will ask the

following questions :-

1. In regard to His Excellency Sir Mark Young's reference in this

Council on the 5th September, 1948 to

"the duty that we owe to use every effort to reduce so far na we

may, both in extent and in duration of time, our dependence

on F.M. Government for financial aid to meet the difference between our revenue and our recurrent expenditure"

will Government state-

(1) What was the nature and extent of the financial aid

rendered to the Colony and when it was so rendered;

(2) Whether the duty of the Colony has now been fully dis- charged, and if not, what is the nature and extent of the financial aid which remains undischarged.

(3) If the answer to the first part of (2) above is in the noga- tive, does this mean that all proposed Hong Kong expenditure, including its Budget, has to be submitted for approval to H.M. Treasury, and if so does such sub- mission involve great delay in practice?

2. With reference to Sir Mark Young's statement and undertaking to

this Council on the 27th March, 1947 :-

*Many of the items which have already been paid stand in a suspense account pending decision ta to the ultimate respon- sibility for payment. I believe it will go some way towards meeting the wishes of Honourable Metúbers if I undertake, as I readily do, that no future transfers from these suspense accounts to our general expenditure account shall take place without prior reference to this Council."

will Government state-

(1) Had may of the items been trausferred to general expendi- ture prior to Sir Mark Young's undertaking referred to above, and if so what were the items?

(2) What are the items which still remain in the suspense

account?