CO129-518-8 Colonial Development Fund- requests and recommendations for monetary assistance for various projects 30-8-1929 - 28-2-1930 — Page 44

* In view of violent fluctuations in the 2. dollar exchange it of forsible to

Mr.

Mr.

Mr. Give sterling Sir E. Harding. equivalents

Sir J. Shuckburgh the sums

Sir G. Grindle.

Sir C. Davis.

Sir S. Wilson.

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in this memor

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Mr. Amery.

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the

everage

value of the

dollar

affooximately 21-

and it at the sterling

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Paris

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one tenth

th

of "dollar figures.

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last for year

Revenue

*

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(31

Fri Jan

1923 $24,783673 $21,571,905

1924

&

24,209,640 26,726,428

1925 23,244,365 28,266,817

1926 21,131,582 23,524,716

1927 21,34+4, 536 20,845,065

1928 24,968, 399 21, 230, 242,

It should be pointed out the at the

public finances of the Colony have

very

been

seriously affected in

recent years by the prolonged ferried of

x

Frade

disturbances in the neighbouring

frovinces of China

the Colony autom

ng

1,986,000-

P.T.O

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