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their proparation must entail locally. I have accordingly

decided that these reports may now be dispensed with and

regarded as replaced by the quarterly tolographic advices

required by my circular telegram of the 22nd November, 1946.

3. In greeing to the introduction of this change in

procedure I should perhaps take this opportunity to stress

the continued need for care and accuracy in the preparation

of figurs of schume requirements so as to ensure that the

issues acally made on the basis of the figures furnished

in the tol grams approximate reasonably closely to the actual

position disclosed at the end of the particular accounting

period. In this connection it should pointed out that

the telegrams requesting issues do not always clearly

indicate the amount required. The intention of paragraph 5(5)

(c) and (d) of my unnumbered circular telegram of the

8th February, 1944 was to indicate the gross expenditure on

schomes after doduction of receipts properly creditable to the

scheme. Paragraph 5(e) was intended to indicate the total

estimated expenditure ranking for re-imbursement against the

scheme in cases where the grant covered a proportion only of

the expenditure. In order to avoid cmbiguity in future, and

also to provide a check on the figures required of paragraphs 5(b)

(c) and (d), I should be grateful if the form of the "issue"

telegram conld be amended to show in all cases gross

expenditure after deduction of receipt creditable to scheme

under (b) (c) and (d), and the total estimated expenditure

ranking for re-imbursement under (e).

2. In order to facilitate the issue arrangements in

the Colonial Office it is particularly important to observe

the requirevats as regards dates of submission of the

telegraphic information sut out in paragraphs 4 and 5 of my

telogram