CO129-255 - Governor Sir Robinson - 1892 [5-7] — Page 64

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that such benefiting of ~ posterity at the

expense of

the existing tax-payers is unfair to the latter and inconsistent with sound

principles of finance. But apart from this general. principle

ile there

are

spesial

considerations, which I shall

proceed to set out, that

render such

a course.

peculiarly undesirable at the present juncture Hongkong.

in

کرم

3.

3

The current account

of the Government at the~ bank is at present overdrawn by upwards of $160,000, and we have to pay 54% interest

on our

overdrafts.

The

suggestion of the Committee

involves our

being overdrawn

by annually increasing amounts for

years

a series of

under even the most

favourable circumstances, and if it were adopted, should practically

we

remain

overdrawn

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