CO129-586-9 War Taxation 24-7-1940 - 28-5-1941 — Page 10

REGISTERED No.

54002/40

DRAFT AND RECORD COPY

LETTER

SENT

DATE

67

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DRAFT

MR. Pilbeam

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Dew Rowen

For

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ENCLOSURES

FURTHER ACTION

(60).

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9 April, 1941.

For Mr.Toynton's signature.

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ask whether we had yet heard anything from

Hong Kong about the building of inesweepers

in the colony. Your letter 3:33955/01 of the

•-*nt November, 1940, and connected correspondence

ience

refers to this question. lis that we had

Poynter explanes at the his

not, and as Sir Geoffry Northcote has only

with Turpes recently got back to the colony agreed to

a

wait two or three weeks before reminding him

bý telegram.

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think that it

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To

T.L. ROWAN, ESQ.,

TREASURY.

44

Northcote

(6094) Wt. 25408—113 40,000 ea. 2 sorts 9/40 T.S. 695

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