INWARD TELEGRAM
TO THE SECRETARY OF STATE FOR THE COLONIES
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FROM HONG KONG (Sir A. Grantham)
D. 1st May, 1950 R. 19%
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RECEIVED 4 MAT 1990 COLONIAL OFFICE
JLANDIATE
No. 473 Confidential
Your telegram No. 617.
Financial Conference : B.H.A. Stores.
Following for Follows. Begins.
We have no information as to how the estimate of B.LA. stores
information we have as to value of stores supplied. Presumably War Office ush provide a breakdown, but we eesume estimato covers all gtores intended for retention, by Government Departments included among those listed in Schedule "A" to for Office Moms BCA 13/734 of 23rd August, 1945; four copies are recorded as distributed to Coloužel Office. In addition you will see from Appendix 1. that He have assumed that the Ordnance stores included cost of coal from india not charged elsewhere.
(9) attached to C.. saringram No. 320 was made up, and this still is only
This schedule, which included harbour craft (page 54) and vehicles (pages 49 and 50) and also railway equipment, set out in stores which H.M. Government (War Office) undertook to provide as requirement for first six months of military administration. Arrangements to supply had not been completed by the time internod officers reached London, and Schedule A vea auexiled by cancellation and reduction of items, Morris, for example, made wholesale cancellation of electrical items while Jardine Matheson arranged for commercial procurement of some port equipment. Our copy also refers to a document used in London reference R SM 102533/46 as authority for many substantial reductions. Three fonts were also placed on Crown Agents at the same time by Planning Unit for goods required by Government Departments, the cost of which were a charge on Hong Kong funde (not B.M.A.). Crom Agents' indent placed before 1st May, 1946, which began to come forward towards the end of 1946, amounted to:
(a) Departmental indents £323,614 (sterling)
(b) Brett programme
(o) Miscellaneous
Governmental
£82,154 (sterling)
£10,954 (sterling).
The magtutule of expenditure borne by this Government in reprovisioning Departments is indicated by following figures for payments by Stores Department alone for wallocated stores received in these years;-
(a) 196/1947
(b) 1947/1948
$20,167,579
$24,325,000
Aincluding
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