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114.0.

7/3 mm g

1870

1943

544796/1629/210

We agreed to pay

18-6-43

H.K. $6 p.m. prhead for

Sp..

lepes. HEK

This works out at # $900 p.a.

200

The present request is for ₤1,225 p.m.

or

214,700 p.a! 16 times as much. even with the subsidy of 50% for relief purposes.

196 leper 2 7 1225pm. = 26-5-0 pen, each or H.K $100 each compard with H.K. $6, each which

agreed to.

These lepers are "non residents" of H.K. & are then for not really

charge on 4.7.

funds but the Colony has for a longtime

helped when such lepes has been sent to the mainland. It is an impossible situation to be faced with a cost of maniterance at the rate of thK. $100

in o I don't think we can

Rach

piece o

afford it.

k

that the HK. Good.

? Tell Chungth have no moral obligation of

& right we cannot pay

amount

this port

mon than

agourd (1. HK$6p.head fo.

E. Joly

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