CO129-557-5 Estimates 1937 19-8-1936 - 7-8-1937 — Page 230

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to the Governor of Hong Kong.

Sent 4.30 p.m.,11th September, 1936.

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No.126.

Your despatch 19th August No.492 financial position,

I will raise no objection to announcement in Legislative

Council as proposed in paragraph 10, but I desire that it

should be made clear that I contemplate the possibility

of salary levy having to be continued in 1937 with very

great reluctance, and assurance should be given that emergency

imposition of this character will not be maintained any longer

then is demanded by obscurity of financial outlook.

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