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be cleared up by the Estimates for the coming year which
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were forwarded to us in January but have not yet turned
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have sent Hong Kong
reports of the Financial Secretary's speech on these
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estimates for the 17 m of Jamiary).
finden
(1) that local defence expenditure in the past year which
at the time the offer to build vessels for the Admiralty was
made, was estimated at $2,000,000
$2,000,000,) in the event nearly!
reached $12,000,000, in addition to gifts to His Majesty's
It puts the
Government in cash of £400,000.
matter of the inėsweepers in the proj Proportion. tones and
(2) that the estimates for 1941-42 include $5,220,000 for
the construction of vessels to be presented to the Admiralty
and the War Department in respect of which no expenditure
has been incurred in the present year.
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the Estimates.
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