CO129-549-1 Remittance of funds between Hong Kong and London 12-2-1934 - 14-2-1935 — Page 69

F. 6242/2.

10th May, 1934.

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Treasury to Colo- hial Office

512.23

Dear Treasury Chest Officer,

The War Office have sent us copies of your

correspondence with the Financial Adviser about the

possibility of obtaining dollars from the Colonial

Government instead of in the open market (from the

Financial Adviser's FACC.1014 of 6.1.32 to your Conf.

T.C.5 of 12.2.34 inclusive).

This is a subject about which the Treasury had

a good deal of correspondence with your predecessors and

I enclose, in case the copies in your office have been

mislaid, copies of the letters noted in the margin. It is

Governor of Hong not clear how anything that may have happened since 1924 Kong to Colonial

Office 103.24

Governor of Hong

can possibly have affected the general principle set out

Kong to Treasury in the first of these enclosures (viz. that both the Chest Officer

Colonial Government and the Chest must benefit by acting

10.3.24

Freasury to

Freasury Chest

Officer 2.6.24

The Treasury Chest Officer,

Hong Kong.

together,