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Dear Wallace,
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TREASURY CHAMBERS,
GREAT GEORGE STREET,
LONDON, S.W.1.
23rd November, 1948.
/. I have a few comments on Hong Kong Savingram No.699 about the financial position for the first six months of the financial year 1948/49. In general the position disclosed seems reasonably satisfactory and shows that we were right in suspecting that the estimates had been conservatively framed.
2. In paragraph 8 the Governor mentions the claim which the 54387 Ministry of Transport is making for craft supplied to the Harbour
8 department.
We would like to be kept in touch with these
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negotiations.
3. In paragraph 10 the Governor hints at a possible further rise in cost of living allowances. Any such move should in our opinion be strongly Lacinte, as it entails devoting yet more revenue to this unproductive purpose, We would certainly like to be kept closely informed of any proposals to increase the allowances.
4.Incidentally we seem to have no copy of your dispatch No.302 of the 25th September, 1948, to which the Governor refers. Can we please have one, if it is relevant to the points I have To: Cat raised?
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Yours sincerely,
W. I. J. Wallace, Esq., 0.B.E.,
Colonial Office.
W. RUSSELL EDMUNDS.
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