CO129-539-8 Military contributions- basis of assessment 25-4-1932 - 27-2-1934 — Page 9

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exemption from Military Contribution

No. 3. As regards repeal of Section 15 of

Ordinance No. 14 of 1927, there is no doubt that

if War Office and Treasury had been consulted

(as they ought to have been) they would not

have agreed to its enactment.

It is a mere

accident that it was about four years before

the section came to the notice of the War

Office.

There is a precedent for a similar

situation in the Straits (see paragraph 13 of

the Report of the Colonial Military Contributions

Committee 1912.).

The Hong Kong case must be argued

on the broad grounds suggested in No.3, i.e.

that the basis of assessment laid down by the

Haliburton Committee is proving increasingly

inequitable, and that the circumstances call for

the grant of " every concession that is con-

sistent with the preservation of the contributions."

The