CO129-577-2 Financial assistance to Hong Kong Travel Association 15-4-1939 - 24-10-1939 — Page 8

alas

14/10

پرسید؟

now

? We may

approval of

convey the S.JS.S the revised proposal.

N. Galsworthy

281

There will not be much use for a Travel Assoin. in war time. But b... after the Move,

SJ

in

6 weeks, whichever is sooner.

Nis Andrews

2/9 at once

B.M. as directed above.

مه

Mylly

The Gor. has had to revise, to some

the war, his original

extent, in view of the war,

ideas for expenditure in the lato budget,

and it may be that this will have been

of

them.

The free grant of $10,000 would

amount to $2,000 more than the

Association expected to rise

in 1939

That much more,

more, therefore

than the ITK Govt. expected to have

to provide.

Alihangh

Aitt

Page

9

Although

age 9

The Japanese threat to

Hong Kong seeme

bees real now

Than it did at the outbreak of

wow, the Colony is

The European was,

not.

at

any

a

rate yet, within t danger area of the latter, the encouragement of tourist traffic is I should have thought, noi the one of the more important the more promising objects for the expenditure of public money.

nor are

? It may be better, therefore,

withhold a

of

to

reply to (3) for the time being, & answer (4) 8/0 by enquiring whether, in the changed circumstances. Sir G. Northcote still wants to press his proposal.

NisAndrents

13/10

We sugguted that

Some

Supchart from pobles funds could

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single bile at this

chemy, by replying that

the TMS appcres

the

provision proposed, assuming

that

The

nctushes of the

Assoen

com neefully be

maintained in was conditions

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14.10.

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slaves. 13/x

age 9