CO129-550-3 Empire Air Mail Services- cost of participation to be exempted from assessment for military contributions... 19-10-1934 - 17-1-1935 — Page 14

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sir,

January

135

214

I am directed by Secretary Sir Philip

Cunliffe-Lister to refer to correspondence

terminating in a letter from this Department

No. 92622/32 of the 7th March, 1933, on the

subject of the assessment of Hong Kong Military

Contribution, and to inform you that the

Government of Hong Kong, in common with the

Governments of the other territories affected,

has been asked to pay an annual subsidy towards

the cost of a scheme for developing existing

Empire Air Mail Services.

The Governor has expressed his willing-

ness that Hong Kong should participate in the

scheme provided the revenue required to meet

the cost of participation can be exempted from

assessinent

THE UNDER SECRETARY OF STATE,

WAR OFFICE.