CO129-611-4 Development Committee- reports on various aspects 11-12-1945 - 14-7-1947 — Page 14

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Oft.on 16/1/47

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14th July, 1947.

Dear Sorpell,

Veloyment dooreteriat,

In your letter to me No.I.P.16/020 of the 16th June, about the appoint, ent of a Registrar of Co-operativos in Hong Kong, you asked me to consider whether the post ought to be charged to 0.9. & .. Bunds, and referred me to the corrompondence between the Colonial Office and the Treasury on the subject of the principles which should determine whether now expenditure in e Tronary controlled Colony should be charged against revenue or to the Colony's G.D. & 3. allocation.

I had not seen that correspondence before, but I have now had an opportunity of looking at it. I observe that, so far as otoff mettors are concerned, the prosent proposale are, broedly spocking, that local revenue or grant-in-old should bear increases in establish ent necessary to crable Coverments to carry out efficiently reemansibilities not arising from the devolopment programme; that the cost of new poets arising from the development programme abould be charged to U.D. & funds; and that poste under G.D. & V. scheen will normally be an contract tere, save where recruitment on this boeis would be impossible öz cause hardship, or the retention of the post ou a permanent basis after1956 can be justified.

D.R. SERPEIL, E50,, 0.B.E.

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