CO129-552-1 Supplementary expenditure 24-12-1934 - 18-1-1936 — Page 113

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GOVERNMENT HOUSE,

HỒNG HỒNG,

1st March, 1935.

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Sir,

RECER

-1 APR 1973

C. O.

I have the honour, in accordance with

Colonial Regulation 281 to request your covering

authority for the expenditure of the sum of $10,873

in supplementation of Head 26 (Kowloon-Canton Railway),

Sub-Head 43 shown on page 78 of the Estimates for 1934.

2.

Provision was made under this Sub-Head

for reconditioning in England one locomotive boiler

at an estimated cost of $17,143.

Owing to the increase during 1934 of

traffic on the Kowloon-Canton Railway it was found

necessary in the course of the year to send an addition-

al boiler to England for reconditioning.

3.

The actual cost was not known until the

full accounts were received in January of this year.

The additional expenditure was recommended by the

THE RIGHT HONOURABLE

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

&c.,

&C.,

&c.,