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valued at approximately £323,000 remain to be accounted for in this way.

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It is suggested, however, that the alter- native presentation of the facts given in Appendix TI justifies an assumption that owing to the terms on which the bulk of the stores were sold and accounted for, overall a net credit accrued to H.M. Government, which was used to offset other costs of the military administration, to which costs no doubt the stores not specifically accounted for would be chargeable, if as is believed to have been largely the case, they were retained by Service establishments.

27th September, 1950.

عملك

(C.G.S. Follows)

FINANCIAL SECRETARY