53611/12/48
Colonisi cfiice,
Sanctuary Buildings,
Grest suith stra
London,
16 December, 1940
19
Dear BACKAJ,
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#ill you lease refer to scheme D.766 (0.2. ho.891) under sbich au interis grant of 21,000 was approved in sy 1947 tozarda the cust f trelalang five engineering apprentices from the hong kong University. For various reasons, sany delays have been experienced in getting this scheme golug; only tro mỹ, pestices have so far been selected, and they are not likely to arrive in this country before next year. You a. rend at the meeting on 28th Setober that the period of the interio grant should be extended to jist July, 1949,
2. we are not yet, thereïore, in s position to draz up a final Bobove; but before any of three studente begin their training we wish to deterains mɔre recisaly the basis on which their allorniens abould be calculated.
BA
3. In paragraph 6 of the scheme sexorandus we stated that it *38 geopend to pay an silomice representing the difference betzesu a standard allowṇace of 130 a month, and the actusi caruin¿s for each month. The intention lg that all the atudents should receive the
la Base Lonthly mount for caintenance; but, if we bese our silowanese a the gross rate 34 asrninge, say apprentice shɔ is liable for incom Tax Jo the #sges received from his training fars would receive less in total euolueats than one paylag less or no tax. «oreover, if as a result of good ark an apprentice recĉives incresand angre, he would Bey still more tax,
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MACKAY,
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