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5.
I am at a loss therefore to understand the reason why
why a principle which on the free of it appears to be the only equitable
one where two
entirely different interests are concerned, should be
one which
changed for has been devised for the convenience of particular Departments of the Imperial Government in making their internal payments.
6.
6.
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The Colonial Government
opposed the re-opening of
the accounts in connection with the Colonial Defenec Contribution, not on
the
was in
ground that it was "favour of the payments being made at the Treasury rate of exchange, but because the requisitions for payments in dollars rendered by the Military Paymaster showed (it is now understood
simply for
convenience
of his
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