CO129-548-1 Annual reports from various government departments 3-4-1934 - 11-6-1935 — Page 10

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certain cases in connection with Treasury

payments. If this question were answered

in the affirmative, the relaxation would

presumably be confined to those cases in which

the Colonial Government was able to put forward

convincing arguments to the effect that the

normal practice could not be worked, and it

would, of course, be for the Secretary of State

to decide whether a Colonial Government had

proved that any relaxation was justifiable in

its own particular circumstances.

5. I have dealt at some length with this

matter, not because I do not agree with Mr.

Howard's and Mr. Vernon's views of what the

correct rule is, but because I want the Colonial

Office to realize that the questions involved

are not as simple as they might appear to be,

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and that not Hong Kong only but many other

Colonies are involved, and that a decision in

favour of orthodoxy given in the Hong Kong

case may involve a big heresy hunt in a lot of

other Colonies.

A.). Har а

1. Harding

8/2/35

Director of Colonial Audi̟t.

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