CO129-547-4 Military contributions 23-2-1934 - 28-11-1934 — Page 30

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Dear Gent,

I am not sure if you are still looking after the

affairs of Hong Kong, but if not perhaps you would direct

this letter into the right channels.

You will remember the protracted correspondence

which our two Departments sustained recently with regard to

the question of the exemption of certain items of the

revenue of Hong Kong from assessment to military contribution:

that correspondence ended with your letter 92622/32 of 8th

March, 1933. One of the principal matters with which the

correspondence dealt was that of the projected new loan of

$28,000,000 which it was understood the Colony were shortly

to raise for general development purposes. In the schedule

of that loan as set out in your letter of 19th August, 1932,

there appeared an item of $5,000,000 for the redemption of

the 1927 6% Hong Kong loan. This last was, you may recall,

the one exempted from assessment to military contribution by

section 15 of Ordinance No. 14 of 1927, an exemption to which

the War Office took strong exception and pressed to have

eventually, partly by reason of the declared

repealed;

G.E.J. Gent, Esq., D.S.O.,M.C.,

Colonial office,

S. W. 1.

intention

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