CO129-589-20 Evacuation- financial arrangements 26-7-1941 - 3-1-1944 — Page 149

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be prepared beang

that/statement could/team/he potto cater signed by certifs

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certificate(signed following form:-

the Accountant General to the effect, that the amount

claimed represente expenditure which it had been

The Sometry of inte

agreed in various communications from

met

should be

made from United Kingdom Funds, after 'allowing for

recoveries which had bean effected in Hong Kong

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from residents on account of the expenditure their

The

degendtanks —Ma-Alstraria: statement should be

prepared in quadruplicate and be submitted to the

Je

auditor for his examination,ho will sign and return

three copies, two of which should be forwarded to me.

It would be convenient if the statement could

show the gross expenditure incurred under the various

as

already forwarded to headings,

Crown Agents for the Colonies; and also the actual

amount, recovered in Hong Kong from the persons

in the statement

the

related 15

# I assume that certain expenditure incurred to

31st March 1941 direct by the Government of Hong Kong

on the evacuation (e.g. cost of passages etc.)<13 ̄still to be claimed from H.M.G., and it would be convenient

if, when submitting an audited statement on the above

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lines in respect of that expenditure, the amount of

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SA4,902. 4. could also be included so as to be

covered by the above formal certificate.

6. It is observed from the statements already

the vacilo.

5. I take This Jpportunity

inclosed a

of forwarding a copy of a later par the Foreign office the matte which was

AV Wycht spy of Smith's desp. N° 76 of 200 Ourser 1940, (copis, 5 you

durzer)

received that the recoveries effected in Hong Kong

represent about 10% of the expenditure by the

Government of Australia on the maintenance and medical

expenses of the evacuees, and I should be glad if you

This is the ramen for representing the normal

ghasrate of recovery to

could inform me whether

pramble, and

what briefly are the ressons for

the-comparativ ły łow proportion of

d.

e-expenditure

ONM

and would ke

grateful if I would be

wformer of the adgeston

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