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Mr. Fiddes

Sir F.Hopwood

We have intentionally abstained from

sending to the Treas. the Est. of H.Kong for the

current financial year until we could screw out of

them some sort of interpretation of the promise

of a "substantial contribution ". For two

reasons

(1) we

want to give no support to tht idea that

the contribution is a Grant-in-Aid, entailing the

usual control of the Treasury over the finances of

the Colony which would be highly embarrassing

and disadvantageous in H.Kong

(2) we w anted to get out of them a contribution

based on

the actual loss of opium revenue, without

undue regard to the sacrifices imposed efforts

being made by the Colony to raise additional revenue

to meet necessary increases of expenditure, apart

from the loss of opium revenue.

The offer of £9,000 approaches sufficiently near-

ly to our request for one half of the direct loss

on opium to justify our policy at least, I

think so on the whole.

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I would now send them the original papers

in 38537, calling special attention to the

remarks of the Gov. on Revenue in his speech to the

Leg. Council on the Est., emphasizing the fact