CO129-268 - Governor Sir Robinson - 1895 [7-11] — Page 383

same footing, since although there are separate municipal revennes in the latter

Colony,

The other?

hand the expenses of general administration are propostimated greater than inn

owing

area of

than in Hengthing, partly

to the larger

the Colony,

which is more

fifty times

as

201

than

large

Haughing, while

the gross revenue,

Надчого

(including municipal receipts) are

less than

three times those of Haughing, & partly to

the distance of | several settlement

from

each other,

requiring

in some

branches of the government service 377 the main Henance of

Departmen

double

triple staff of officers

Buy

compared with the staff required in the compact Coley of Hongking.

4. As the whole docs

no4. Under all the

circumstances of

Case

Isee

告

reas.

for regarding the

proposed percentage,

taken

on the total

revenue

ary

of the folurg

at all an unrea

sonable contribution

to ask for from Hungkung.

5. As regards thin

expenditure

on new

Barracks, I have & remind zu

that fun

predecessor