the
open ports of Japan to ports in Formosa where Imperial Custom Houser are established or from Formosan ports where Imperial Custour Houses are ecto- blished to Japanese open ports should
be treated in the same way transported from one to another, and that
A.J
cargo Japaneve opon port.
cargo transported from Formosan ports where no Swepe= rial Customs Howwe is established, in : respect of which satisfactory proof is produce
eed to the Commissioner of Custouns
a
For-
that it has been conveyed from
port, should be treated in the
UNAUer.
The question has
whether thir
arrangement.
now alivan
ent is applicable only to direct shipments between Formo=
sa and
Japars: or whether the above.
treatment can be claimed in respect of
through Bill
cargo, accompanied by of Lading, shipped from Formosa, but transhipped at StongKong in rouse for
Japan
to Secretory,
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Japan. Although the Austous charges
Revied on
Austauscharge
cargo of sugar recently shipped from Takao to Yokohama under Khrough Bill of Lading allowing of
20
Cave
kaushipment at storigKong and actually,
transhipped, were, as a special and on the production of satisfactory evidence as to the origin and destination of the
cargo, refunded by the Japanese Government, it is considered doubtful
whether the treatment accorded in this
instance can be generally clained as a matter of right,
I
ani
therefore to request that I may be favoured for the information of His Excellency the Governor and for transmission to the Secretary of State with the views of the Chamber of Commerce is to whether the effect of the privilege, if claimed and accorded, would be likely to prove beneficial or otherwise to the trade of
this Colony.
Chamber of Commerce,
€
I have.
B2. J. H. Stewart Lockhart
Colonial Secretary.