CO129-615-4 Harbour craft used by Hong Kong Government- financial arrangements 30-1-1948 - 12-1-1949 — Page 13

Saving.

From the Secretary of State for the Colonies.

To the Officer Administering the Government off........

Date

No......

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6. Enquiries are being made

ere us to how the craft conecrasd (both thone on the Ministry of Transport 11 t and the oth re) reached the Eng Kong Goverment as it is doeirable to know whetizer :-

(c) they wore oraft orderød for, and belongi to, the "Military Administration”

or (b)

or (0)

or (d)

(1.e. the Civil Afaire side, not the combatant side of the liberating forces) which were handed over to the civil government on the ter inotion of the Military Administrati n?

they were ordered for the Eilitary

Administration, but did not reach the Colony until eft r civil government had been restored?

they belonged to the combats.t site of

the liberating forces, who, having no use for them themselves, banded them over to the #ilitary Administration, whenco they reached the civil gov rasent se in (b) above

they belonged to the combatent site of the liberating forces, who, having to une for them, hansen them over after the termination or the Militory administration direct to the civil goverment.