CO129-164 - Sir Kennedy - 1873 [7-9] — Page 512

Crainance

a

reasonable one; and

deed it appears

~ from

the 3rd Enclosure of your Despatch that

the interval has in

been

previono years of longer durations 1. On the other hand Iginlagree with

you

that it is desirable

the

that the original Estimates for a year. should be made as

complete as

possible

in the pot instance

so do to avoid the

necessity

503

necessity for sup=

aplementary Estimates,

that this cannot.

and

bedone if they

are

prepared and passed

at a period long anterion to that to which they relate 5 The practice which

you say prevails in Hong Kong of framing the Estimates

for the sincceeding year on the basis of the actual Returns of the first six months of the

preceding year appears

to