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C. 82756/31 [No. 2].

SIR,

No.

COLONIAL OFFICE to WAR OFFICE. [Answered by No. C. 82756/31 [No. 2].]

PROOF.

Downing Street, 27th February, 1931

WITH reference to your letter of the 10th of July, 1930,* regarding the method of assessing the military contribution of Hong Kong, I am directed by Lord Passfield to transmit to you, to be laid before the Army Council, a copy of a despatch from the Governor of Hong Kong enclosing a copy of a memorandum by the Deputy Colonial Treasurer regarding the exemption of certain items of revenue from assessment, and to express the hope that the Council will consider favourably the proposals contained in the memorandum.

2. If the other claims referred to by the Deputy Colonial Treasurer are admitted, the Secretary of State will not press for a return of the assessments made in the past years on the gross revenue of the waterworks, although they appear to have been actually contrary to law.

I am, &c.,

WALTER D. ELLIS.

* C. 72856/30 [No. 3]: not printed.

No. C. 82756/31 [No. 1].

Straits Defence Con.-Gp. 6. 131/2963. 24. 8/34. (18279) M. & S. Ltd.

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