CO129-342 - Governor Lugard & Public Offices - 1907 [11-12] — Page 105

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statement appears as Appendix 20 and Hongkong and North China are shown in one calculation the total being approximately double the amount shown for each separately in 1907-08. I have found it practically impossible to arrive at the correct figures for each separately.

In the Estimates of 1903-04 and 1902-03 (those for 1904-05 and 1905-06 are not obtainable here) this statement does not appear at all.

I have the honour to ask that the Secretary of State for War may be moved to furnish a complete return showing the total cost in each year of the Military Garrison of this Colony for the past 10 years, as in Appendix 21 of the current Army Estimates, with the addition of the cost of Defence Works and of the items named by Colonel Darling and any others, together with the actual appropriations in aid received as a "Military Contribution" from this Colony.

I should be glad if without excessive trouble similar figures for Mauritius, Ceylon, the Straits Settlements (and perhaps Sierra Leone, Jamaica, Bermuda and Cyprus) could be added. With a correct appreciation of the amounts actually incurred by the Imperial Government on behalf of Colonial defence, I think it is not improbable that

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103 statement appears as Appendix 20 and Hongkong and North China are shown in one calculation the total being approximately double the amount shown for each separately in 1907-08. I have found it practically impossible to arrive at the correct figures for each separately. In the Estimates of 1903-04 and 1902-03 (those for 1904-05 and 1905-06 are not obtainable here) this statement does not appear at all. 3. I have the honour to ask that the Secretary of State for War may be moved to furnish a complete return showing the total cost in each year of the Military Garrison of this Colony for the past 10 years, as in Appendix 21 of the current Army Estimates, with the addition of the cost of Defence Works and of the items named by Colonel Darling and any others, together with the actual appropriations in aid received as a "Military Contribution" from this Colony. I should be glad if without excessive trouble similar figures for Mauritius, Ceylon, the Straits Settlements (and perhaps Sierra Leone, Jamaica, Bermuda and Cyprus) could be added. With a correct appreciation of the amounts actually incurred by the Imperial Government on behalf of Colonial defence, I think it is not improbable that S.

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103 statement appears as Appendix 20 and Hongkong and North China are shown in one calculation the total being approxi- mately double the amount shewn for each separately in 1907-08. I have found it practically impossible to arrive at the correct figures for each separately. In the Estimates of 1903-04 and 1902-03 (those for 1904-05 and 1905-06 are not obtainable here) this statement does not appear at all. 3. I have the honour to ask that the Secretary of State for War may be moved to furnish a com- plete return shewing the total cost in each year of the Military Garrison of this Colony for the past 10 years, as in Appendix 21 of the current Army Estimates, with the addition of the cost of Defence Works and of the items named by Colonel Darling and any others, together with the actual appropriations in aid received as a "Military Contri- bution" from this Colony. I should be glad if without excessive trouble similar figures for Mauritius, Ceylon, the Straits Settlements (and perhaps Sierra Leone, Jamaica, Bermuda and Cyprus) could be added. With a correct appreciation of the amounts actually incurred by the Imperial Government on behalf of Colonial defence, I think it is not improbable that S.

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103

statement appears as Appendix 20 and Hongkong and North

China are shown in one calculation the total being approxi-

mately double the amount shewn for each separately in

1907-08. I have found it practically impossible to arrive

at the correct figures for each separately.

In the Estimates of 1903-04 and 1902-03

(those for 1904-05 and 1905-06 are not obtainable here)

this statement does not appear at all.

I have the honour to ask that the

Secretary of State for War may be moved to furnish a com-

plete return shewing the total cost in each year of the

Military Garrison of this Colony for the past 10 years,

as in Appendix 21 of the current Army Estimates, with the

addition of the cost of Defence Works and of the items

named by Colonel Darling and any others, together with the

actual appropriations in aid received as a "Military Contri-

bution" from this Colony.

I should be glad if without excessive

trouble similar figures for Mauritius, Ceylon, the Straits

Settlements (and perhaps Sierra Leone, Jamaica, Bermuda

and Cyprus) could be added. With a correct appreciation

of the amounts actually incurred by the Imperial Government

on behalf of Colonial defence, I think it is not improbable

that

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