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I am in receipt of your letters of the 28th, and
October and Erd. November, respectively and note the contente.
With regard to repairs to neutral vessels, I can
only emphasips, what was said in my letter of the 7th. October,
that with two very large private dry-docking and repair
establishments in Hongkong in addition to the Naval Dockyard
the facilities for repairs are so immense and so much in exodus
of the normal requirements of the port that any restrictions
whatsoever on repairs to neutrel vessels would be fatal to the
industry and against the interests of the Colony.
With reference to the building of new vessels for
foreign ownere, I pointed out that this company has at present
siz such ships under construction and I would respectfully
submit that any restrictions as to the rate of charter of those
vessels when completed would be decidedly unfair to thos9
Owners. These vessels were contracted for in June, 1915, and have
been very considerably delayed owing to the Government
restrictions of the export of steel material from home and the
owners of the four Norwegian vessels have agreed to pay a larga
sum extra each vessel to get them completed with steel material
from America. If those ownere had ever imagined the restrictions
under which those vessels were to be chartered they would never
have agreed to pay this extra sun and the completion of the
ships would have been indefinitely postponed.
Further with regard to new contracts for neutral
vessels, this company would much rather build British than
neutral ships, but would respectfully submit that if sufficient
orders from British owners are not forthcoming to keep our
ship-building yard fully employed, it should be permitted to
undertake contracts for foreign owners, If any restrictions