"regarding Hongkong
and considering
"with themselves whether or not they
"should remove" here" (there)])" - I know" from
some
of
these men that the
"Colonial Government has been applied
"to and a
little positive encouragement
"would bring them here - This"
encouragement I suppose the Govern-
ment is not in a position to give, but
"the fact points to an increase of
native trade rather than to its
"Annihilation – The Government may
know what the" little positive Encourage-
ment" may have been, but it was rather
conjecturing tangible or the then
Brooke Robertson had overlooked the fact that Hongkong shipped
Cotton was
paying
4.25
more than double
Macau shipped cotton. A fact which
was hardly known to him when
seeking
aid to obtain the release of some ports
one month before he wrote his despatch
For the sake of easy reference
10.
have drawn up the enclosed table
showing the amount of duties payable
on Hongkong shipped piece goods compared with those shipped at Macau.
The table explains the Chinese document from which
Enclosure H3 is made up was
furnished by the then Hongkong
''
and is Entitled "an
abridged list
of duties payable at the new
Customs Stations at Pak Boi
and
then Lung -
These are
Koi Roans