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GOVERNMENT HOUSE,

HONG KONG,

10th April, 1935.

I have the honour in accordance with Colonial

Regulation 281, to request your covering authority for the expenditure of the sum of $25,531 to supplement Head 28 (Miscellaneous Services), sub-head 47, shown on page 89 of

the Estimates for 1934.

2.

The amount provided for Transport of Govern-

ment Servants was $450,000, but this has proved to be an

underestimate, due to the impossibility of forecasting with

complete accuracy the number of officers and their families

entitled to passages in any particular year. The actual figures of expenditure on this service for 1934 and the two

preceding years are:

1932

1933

1934

$487,734

$487,758

$475,531

so that there has actually been a decrease accounted for partly

by the higher exchange rate.

3.

The additional expenditure was recommended

by the Finance Committee on 4th April, 1935, (Message No.7 of

1935, item 158 of 1934) and its adoption by the Legislative

THE RIGHT HONOURABLE

SIR P. CUNLIFFE-LISTER, G.B.E., M.C., M.P.

&C.,

&C.,

&C.