Month.
Sterling
by months.
expenditure spread Commercial
Rate.
00:
August, 1929.
Enclosure to War Office letter, numbered 119/Abroad/745 (F.1) of 3/
Statement showing the monthly cost in dollars of the Garrison of Hong Kong for the
Local dollar expenditure charged in the Command Paymaster's accounts.
year 1917/18.
Dollar
Total monthly sterling and dollar expenditure in dollars.
Average
equivalent of Sterling
Expenditure.
£
S. d.
9. d.
April, 1917.
461
10,961. 15.
0.
2.
4 31/88
92,794
234,255
May.
125,096
10,961. 15.
0.
2.
4 65/104
91,906
217,002
June.
154,516
10,961. 15.
0.
2.
5 105/208
89,166
243,682
July.
115,099
10,961. 15.
0.
2.
7 9/100
84,620
199,719
August.
128,747
10,961. 15. 0.
2.
9 43/52
77,773
206,520
September.
145,338
October.
146', 466
10,961. 15.
10,961. 15. 0.
0.
3.
2 1/50
69,196
214,534
2.
9 23/108
79,211
225,677
November.
125,254
10,961. 15. 0.
2. 10 75/104
75,770
201,024
December.
115,934
10,961. 15. 0.
2. 11 51/96
74,042
189,976
January, 1918.
199,930
February.
151,976
March.
127,645
10,961. 15. 0.
10,961. 15.
10,961. 15. 0.
3.
0 3/52
72,961
272,891
0.
2. 11 43/88
74,131
226,107
3.
0 63/100
71,821
199,466
TOTALS.
1,677,462
953,391
2,630,853
War Office (F.1).,
August, 1929.
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