File 815/1917 Pt 9 'Persian Gulf:- Lights & Buoys. Expenditure – Claims against F.O.' [‎479r] (46/58)

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‘.their Jiordshipe refused. _t© be gar mi& part of this expenditure
and a co >y of the Treeauxy letter (llo* 7161/10 of 4th • y,
1916) wm sent to your depnrtuent on th® 6tii Ley, 1910
(8496V 1^7,34/1910). 1 tm therefore to enquire vrhy this
claim hm been put forward* the Trersujy refuse to beer rny
portion of the upkeep of these buoys unless it refers solely
to the number sanctioned by them and owing to the impossi-
bility in thi b dep&r .. of determining this, the whole of
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1553:1:9. the recurring expenditure {five hundred and fifty**three
pounds * one chilliBg and, nine pence) on these buoys has
been withdrawn.
4. kith reference t© the observations in your letter
T 13752 of the 15 th 'February lust relative to the exp end! ~
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ture Incurred on tl\e ♦‘heaphus,* X &m to point out that the
te.49,193.9.1. sum of *s.493.93.9.X wfc npent in the Boiabcy dockytrd on
repairs and in support of this Vrersury authority wiiich was
p., conveyed to you in the letter fro® this department of 11th
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' ,S; Hoveeiber, 19X9, ho. 147366///34 is quoted. I cm to observe
that tlie bulk of this expend!ture wr-s incurred in the half
year to September 30th, 1919, before the project referred
to in the above letter was suggested. oreaver, the reprire
pnd alteration© authorised are charged for in the 1926-21
claim. I im, therefore, to request tin t exjtiam,Cions may
be given a© to the necessity for tide heavy expenditure on
repairs to be followed almost immediately by another
5,713:18:3. refitting. Meentisse, the charge t}iree thousand, seven
hundred and thirteen pound©, eighteen shillings and eight
pence/