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(To accompany Endrous 1.)
HONGKONG GENERAL CHAMBER OF COMMERCE
Hongkong 21st March, 1916.
C. H. Ross, Esq.,
Messze. Matheson & Co., Ltd.,
3 Lombard Street,
Dear Sir,
London, E. 0.
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I am to convay to you the thanks and appreciation
of my Committee that you find yourself able to represent this
Chamber in the Council of the Britisk Imperial Council of
Commerce in the place of the late Mr. E. A. Hewett, C. M. G.
There will be, as you no doubt are aware, a
Conference in London during the week commencing June 5th., 1916,
to which all members of Council and certain special delegates
from overseas will be invited.
The provisional programme embraces many important
questions some of which deeply interest this Colony.
My Committee are fortunate in escuring as the
representative of this Chamber one who has such a first-hand
knowledge of conditions of trade in Southern China.
The liberty is taken herein of indicating the
trend of commercial thought as regards certain questions which
will receive the attention of the ooming Conference.
The expression "Commercial" in the preceding paragraph is used advisedly in that it is duly recognised that local trading interests must be subservient to Imperial Policy.
The Circular dated 30th. December, 1915, announcing the Conference, suggests among other matters for consideration:-
(1) FISCAL QUESTIONS
(a) The adoption of the system of preferential tariffe
within the Empire.
Tisterand Leinofas and
Hongkong.
This is a knotty problem as regards the Colony of
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