CO129-244 - Governor Des Voeus Acting Governor Fleming - 1890 [1-4] — Page 527

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And further as soon as Sections 2 and 7 have used up the preliminary 25 per cent deposit, the Government will only call on the lot-holders, at ten days' notice, as required by the contractor so that such funds would only be in the hands of the Bank a very short time. The same steps being followed with each successive section the available balance can never at any one time be much over what it now is, or will shortly be, say about $261,000.

As the Hongkong Bank has on some occasions granted accommodation in the shape of overdrafts to the Hongkong Government perhaps His Excellency the Administrator might do us the favour to telegraph home asking that the funds of the Praya Reclamation Scheme be left with the Bank until arrival of your despatches explaining these facts,- the cost of the telegram being defrayed by the Bank.

I have &c.

(Signed) Wade Gardner,

Acting Chief Manager,

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$16 *)) ( 524 And further as soon as Sections 2 and 7 have used up the preliminary 25 per cent deposit, the Government will only call on the lot-holders, at ten days' notice, as required by the contractor so that such funds would only be in the hands of the Bank a very short time. The same steps being followed with each successive section the available balance can never at any one time be much over what it now is, or will shortly be, say about $261,000. As the Hongkong Bank has on some occasions granted accommodation in the shape of overdrafts to the Hongkong Government perhaps His Excellency the Administrator might do us the favour to telegraph home asking that the funds of the Praya Reclamation Scheme be left with the Bank until arrival of your despatches explaining these facts,- the cost of the telegram being defrayed by the Bank. I have &c. (Signed) Wade Gardner, Acting Chief Manager,
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$16 *)) ( 524 And further as soon as Sections 2 and 7 have used up the preliminary 25 per cent deposit, the Government will only call on the lot-holders, at ten days' notice, as required by the contractor so that such funds would only be in the hands of the Bank a very short time. The same steps being followed with each successive section the available balance can never at any one time be much over what it now is, or will shortly be, say about $261,000. As the Hongkong Bank has on some occasions granted accommodation in the shape of overdrafts to the Hongkong Government perhaps His Excellency the Aquinistrator might do us the favor to telegraph home asking that the funds of the Praya Reclamation Scheme be left with the Bank until arrival of your despatches explaining these facts,- the cost of the telegram being aefrayed by the Bank. I have &c. (Signed) Wade Gard'ner, Acting Chief Manager,
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$16

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(

524

And further as soon as Sections 2 and 7 have used up the

preliminary 25 per cent deposit, the Government will only

call on the lot-holders, at ten days' notice, as required

by the contractor so that such funds would only be in the

hands of the Bank a very short time. The same steps being

followed with each successive section the available

balance can never at any one time be much over what it now

is, or will shortly be, say about $261,000.

As the Hongkong Bank has on some occasions

granted accommodation in the shape of overdrafts to the

Hongkong Government perhaps His Excellency the Aquinistrator

might do us the favor to telegraph home asking that the

funds of the Praya Reclamation Scheme be left with the Bank

until

arrival of your despatches explaining these facts,-

the cost of the telegram being aefrayed by the Bank.

I have &c.

(Signed) Wade Gard'ner,

Acting Chief Manager,

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