CO129-525-3 Estimates 1931 and other financial papers 16-1-1930 - 1-9-1932 — Page 15

23. X. 20

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10 For 568 Gov.

Fm. Ordu. No 19.

Appropriation Ordnance 1931.

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as was

make it quite clear that,

to be expected, he is not

underestimaty the difficulties of

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them

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the

sparing efforts to overcom

When the Retrenchment

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e the new

Treasurer has got to work we shall no

doubt see

more drrons results (The

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Abstract of Differences must be fut down

totte Treasy

is symptomatic).

Interesting founts no the Goo's speach are the conviction that cost of living is higher in Malaya (and that, in any case, the high level is due to a luxurious tyle of living the rather than to high costs of censearies); the emphatic declaration that there is no chance of getting the rate of militan contubation