CO129-303 - Public Offices & Others - 1900 — Page 364

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The Local Auditor, Hong Kong, to the Comptroller and Auditor General.

No 19/1900.

C. & A.G.

Sir:-

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Audit Office,

Hong Kong,

1st May, 1900.

I have the honour to inform you that a certain

number of cadets connected with the Straits Settlements and the Federated Malay States are prosecuting their studies in Chinese at Canton.

2. They are examined from time to time by a Sub- Committee of the Board of Examiners in Hong Kong and the Straits Government have agreed to pay the Board a fee of $50 for each examination of each cadet.

3. The arrangement made is that the amount of the fees shall be advanced by the Hong Kong Government to the Board, and the Straits Government be debited in the

Account Current with Hong Kong.

4.

The fees are to be divided amongst the members of

the Sub-Committee.

5. The amount of the fees will pass through the Government Account under the heading of Advances both on

the debit and credit side.

6. At the present time two of the Sub-Committee

engaged on these examinations are officers of the Govern-

ment, and I have the honour to ask whether the proposed

method of dealing with the fees to be paid by the Straits

Government is correct.

I have &c.,

(Signed) H.C.Nicolle,