CO129-611-5 Development Secretariat- appointment of registrar of Co-operatives 10-3-1947 - 10-3-1948 — Page 58

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Parly. U.S. of S.

Secretary of State.

JUL 1947

Dear Serpell,

D.R. ŞERPELL, ESQ., 0.B.E.

TREASURY.

FURTHER ACTION.

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Accenti Meier Haria

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Staff of Development Secretariat,

Hong Kong.

In your letter to me No.I.F. 16/020

of the 16th June, about the appointment

of a Registrar of Co-operatives in

Hong Kong, you asked me to consider whether

the post ought to be charged to C. D. & W.

Funds, and referred me to the correspondence

between the Colonial Office and the

Treasury on the subject of the principles

which should determine whether new

expenditure in a Treasury-controlled

Colony should be charged against revenue or to the Colony's C. D. & W. 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 staff matters are

concerned, the present proposals are,

broadly speaking, that local revenue

or grant-in-aid should bear increases in

establishment necessary to enable

Governments to carry out efficiently

responsibilities not arising from the

Development programme; that the cost of.

new posts arising from the development

programme