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T Under-Secretary of State,
The War Office,
London, S.W. 1.
the following number quoted,
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sir.
NATIONAL
FOR
ROISABLED
(D.L.l.a.)
THE WAR OFFICE,
LONDON, S.W.1262
26 October 1925.
Brokes
40427
With reference to your letter dated 5th March last, No. 9647/25, and previous correspondenge relatieto the proposed exchange of certain lande in military occupation at Hong Kong, I am commanded by the Army Council to state that they are now in a position to signify their definite acceptance of the scheme subject to the conditione already agreed upon in the correspondence above mentioned, or contained in the terms of the Oakley Award,
They note, however, in this connexion, that the Colonial Government has since stated that under present local conditions it cannot find the necessary funds for the reprovision of the garrison.
They are prepared also to accede to the suggestion in your letter of the 5th May 1924 (No.1835/24) that certain land at Elliott and Fly Point Batteries, valued in Sir John Oakley's supplementary award at 76,580 dollars should be surrendered, free of all credit in the general Colonial Military Land Accounts or in the Special Reprovision Account, in order that it may be formally handed over to the University of Hong Kong; and they would suggest, subject to the views both of your Department and of the local military authorities, that the surrender should be made to the Colonial Government and not direct to the University authorities
After a careful consideration of the arguments adduced by the Governor in the dispatch of 17th June, a copy of which accompanied your letter of the 12th August,
. No. 33482/25, they regret that, at all events until the
total cost of the reprovision scheme is more clearly known,
they
he Under Secretary of State,
Colonial Office,
Whitehall,
S.W.1.
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