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CLAIMS OF CONSULATE AND COMPANIES

Consulate-General

Consulate-General Informa-

tion Section

Deacon & Co. Ltd.

Butterfield & Swire

STRUCTURAL DAMAGE

Consult Ministry

of Works

OFFICE EQUIPMENT

£500 (non-

FURNITURE

GOODS

RENT

Ministry of Works)

Consult Minis- try of Works

325 monthly from 1.2.48

Consult Shanghai

Office

Consult 3h'ai

Office

£6 monthly

from 1.2.48

£1,750

£1,750

TOTAL

£ 3,5 00

£55,000

55,000

Union Insurance Society

of Canton Ltd.

400

400

Arnhold & Co. Ltd.

335

335

John Manners & Co. Ltd.

180

180

Chartered Bank

8,519**

1,225

9.744

Mien Hua Thread Co.

269

100

5,406

5,775

Jardine, Matheson & Co. Ltd.

28,490

3,153

1,110

9,400

3,750

41,903

Hongkong & Shanghai Banking

Corporation.

261

261

Reuter

56

56

Total £117,154 plus cost of reconstructing and furnishing Consulate buildings and renting temporary premises and cost of Information Section property destroyed.

**

*Provisional, based on assumption that building is structurally sound enough to be restored.

Main treasury door also needs repair cost of which is at present unknown.