CO129-518-8 Colonial Development Fund- requests and recommendations for monetary assistance for various projects 30-8-1929 - 28-2-1930 — Page 23

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C.D.A.C./F/32.

RECEIVED

7 DEC 1929

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Colonial Development Advisory Committee.

Colonial Office,

Downing Street,

Sir,

6 December, 1929.

I am directed by the Colonial Development

Advisory Committee to request you to inform Lord

Passfield that at their tenth meeting, on the 4th

December, they had under consideration the application

of the Government of Hong Kong for assistance from

the Colonial Development Fund in respect of the cost

of water schemes in Hong Kong and Kowloon.

2. The Committee observe that the two projects

in question, the Aberdeen Valley Scheme and the

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Sheng-mun Scheme which are together estimated to cost

some £686,050, have already been put in hand, and that

orders to the extent of £49,560 have already been

placed in this country in connection with these

projects. The effect of granting assistance from

the Colonial Development Fund would thus be, not to

make possible or accelerate work which would not

otherwise be undertaken, but merely to relieve the

Government of Hong Kong in some degree of an existing

financial liability.

3. In these circumstances the Committee decided

with regret that they were unable to recommend any

assistanc e

THE UNDER SECRETARY OF STATE,

COLONIAL OFFICE.