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press him to assume the personal responsibility for making these funds available for these

purposes; especially as, as has been pointed out above, he has no legal authority to do so. Nor do we feel that even with a guarantee to reimburse the Bank from Public Funds, it would really be appropriate that Hong Kong University funds should be used for these purposes which are in the nature of "relief" measures not

essentially different from other relief measures, the cost of which is being met from Public

Funds.

If you agree, the only question

remaining to be decided is whether the cost of

these measures should remain to be met from the

Foreign Office Vote or whether that Vote should

now be reimbursed from Hong Kong funds. As to this, we in the Colonial Office should be quite prepared to accept them as a charge on Hong Kong

funds.

وشد السعة

Yours sincerely, com f

I am

This letter

to Scult

at The PO

Apt. 9.J.

Paskin.