CO129-582-16 Arrangements for securing funds for trade commissioner 1-9-1939 - 18-1-1940 — Page 20

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DEPARTMENT OF OVERSEAS TRADE

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Telephone: Whitehall 9040 Telegrams: Advantage, Parl, London

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9-12, Basinghall Street, E.C.2

Telephone: Metropolitan 4713

70, Victoria Street, S.W.I

Telephone: Victoria 4606

1st September, 1939.

With reference to the Dominions

Office communication (Secret E.83/59) of the 30th August to Mr. Boyse regarding the financing in time of war of the offices of 'the United Kingdom High Commissioners in the Dominions etc., I am directed by Mr. R.S. Hudson to state for the information of the Secretary of State for the Colonies that this Department has been in communication with His Majesty's Treasury on the question of the procedure under which His Majesty's Trade Commissioner in Hong Kong (who also is Commercial Secretary to His Majesty's Embassy in China) may secure funds for expenditure at his post by way of salary, office expenses etc., and that, on the suggestion of the Treasury, it is desired to enquire whether there would be any difficulty in arrangements being made by which the Trade Commissioner could secure funds through the Governor of Hong Kong.

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Should the Secretary of State see no objection to arrangements of this kind

The Under Secretary of State,

Colonial Office,

Downing Street, S..1.

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