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Enclosure 1.
10200
&
REC 19 JUN 001
180
107,108,&109.Leadenhall Street,
London,
K
B.C.
23rd March, 1900.
sir,
Our attention has been called by Mr.D.S.Dody
Burjor of your City to a registration of a label by Messrs. Siemssen and Company of HongKong, No.32 Government Notice 27/1/1900 which is undoubtedly a copy of our label for Mus- tard which we have shipped to your port for the last 30 / 40
years and must have been well known to your Department as we
ship it so largely.
The label is designed so as to deceive the
Chinese and to take away to Germany British: Trade
We quite admit our label is not registered, but
we think you will find that it is an infringement of the act
for anything to be registered to the prejudice of existing
old and established trade, and we trust you will see your way
to take steps to cancel this registration in question.
We understand this registration would not in
any, way enable Messrs Siemssen and Co. to stop our label being imported into HongKong as it existed prior to their regis-
tration.
Thanking you in advance for any steps you may
be disposed to take in this matter and begging you will favor
us with a reply.
je Colonial Secretary
Colonial Secretary's Office,
We etc,
P.Pro.C, & E, Morton,
(Sd.)J.Gall.