CO129-376 - Governor Sir Lugard - 1911 [3-4] — Page 404

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COPY. No. 2330/1.

Enclosure 1 (3).

CQ

15754

Military Headquarters

RESE MAY

South China Command,"

Hongkong, 7th. April, 1911.

391

Your Excellency,

I have the honour to acknowledge receipt of

Your Excellency's No. 2 in 8268/08.

2.

As regards paragraph 2 thereof, the extracts

from the local Hansard for 16th. March, 1911, will be attached to

my letter to the Army Council, as suggested.

3.

As regards paragraph 3, although, as Your Excellency points out, the price of beer per pint in the canteens

will still be 3 cents less than prevails elsewhere in the Colony,

the fact which I put forward is merely that the 17 cents which the

soldier pays is the equivalent of nearly 34 d., a very much higher

price than he pays at home.

4.

In paragraph 3 of my letter to the Secretary

Army Council I accentuated the fact that the enactment of 1909

only made a rebate "permissible", but subsequently, in paragraph

5, I referred, for the sake of conciseness only, to the "unfore-

-seen abolition of the Rebate". This expression is, as pointed by

Your Excellency, open to shy objection. The effect on the Troops of

the discontinuance of the rebate was, however, exactly as describ-

-ed. Until it was definitely known that rebate would not be

continued to them in 1911, there was no reason to raise the price

of beer in the canteens in order to provide by an extra profit on sales, for extra messing and recreation of both drinkers and tee-

-totallers, objects which were covered by the rebate given to the troops, and consequently the price of beer was not raised until it

was known that the discontinuance of the rebate had been definite- -ly decided on in Legislative Council.

Should it meet Your Excellency's views I pro- -pose to alter the expression "unforseen abolition of the rebate by enactment on the 16th. March" to "unforeseen decision on the 16th. March to discontinue payment of the rebate".