CO129-504-10 Currency system- premium on bank notes as compared with British silver dollars 10-1-1927 - 30-8-1927 — Page 17

Mr. Beckett 11/4 Mr. Ellis

Mr.

Mr. E. J. Harding.

Sir C. Strachey.

Sir J. Shuckburgh.

Sir G. Grindle.

Sir C. Davis.

Sir S Wilson.

Mr. Ormsby-Gore.

Erl of Clarendon.

Ir. Amery.

DRAFTS

HONG KONG

Confidential

Gov.

29.3.27

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30148/24 4 Kong

Sir,

Downing Street,

3.

14 April,1927.

C. D.

R 12 APR

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I have, etc., to transmit to

you a copy of a letter from Mr .M.M.S.

Gubbay, General Manager of the P. & 0.

Banking Corporation, on the subject of

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the premium on Bank Notes as compared with

silver dollars in Hong Kong. The

enclosures to Mr. Gubbay's letter were

a memorandum by Mr. L.E.Hopkins, Manager

of the P. & 0. Banking Corporation at

Hong Kong, and a reply from the Colonial

Secretary's Office signed by Mr. E.W,

Hamilton and dated the 10th January, 1927.

2.

I should be glad to be furnished

with further information on this question

and I have accordingly to request that

you will furnish me with a memorandum

on the premium on bank notes, making it

After despatch C.R.

to start file for this.

clear, inter alia, whether the premium

only