CO129-586-8 War Taxation 2-2-1940 - 11-5-1940 — Page 4

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ram has now

been corrected

and it offear that the fiqurces should be as

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suggested in

easy

minute of posterday.

Mr Bell ra

rang up to say that Treasury

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in our proposed refley. They

assume

that

the naval craft will form

for on the

wmanston that it is spreed that Colour bags for RNUR which used For of

lor and defence)

hart of the local defence forces and therefore

that the cost

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mantenance will fall

the Colony automatically. I agreed

that this seemed litely; but made it

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that we could not be occarded as

The Treasury

committed to the view.

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an agere

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the bout.

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were unable is find thes

the but belephoned (12 Etheridge. I think, in

the absence of the Gitanand) that they would

be Fallen as

the

agreeing in frinciple.

120 Hobbs was

not quite clear whetted

Lenders represented anything additional to

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