CO129-480 - Governor Sir Stubbs - 1923 [4-7] — Page 70

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Treasury Chambers,

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12 June, 1923.

You may perhaps be aware that a dispute has been going on between the War Office and the

Hong Kong authorities about certain military lands there. The general idea seems to be that the Colony

want the Jar Office to clear out of certain barracks etc. which are situated in the busiest commercial quarter. The War Office are willing to do so provided the

crent Colony agrees to ==== Rem the value of the accommodation

they surrender with a view to re-providing from it

up-to-date accommodation elsewhere for the troops, the war office claiming that the Colony should pay

the actual cost of re- -provision of accommodation even

if it should be more than the valuation.

The particular point on which I invoke

your aid arises from the arrangements for valuation

of the existing War office property.

Stubbs is

apparently in a position to claim that the local

Sir James Masterton Smith, K.C.B.

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