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address
The Controller,
Foreign Trade Department.
elephone: Gerrard 8640.
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Sir,
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REG FEB 171
FOREIGN TRADE DEPARTMENT,
LANCASTER House,
31st
ST. JAMES,
S.W.
3 January, 1917.
you
With reference to your letter No. 1771 of the 12th
instant enclosing copy of a telegram received from the
Governer of Hong Kong suggesting the exemption from the
requirement of Certificates of Interest for shipments to
Hong Kong of rattan and ebony from Dutch Borneo and Celebes
Ports with the exception of Makassar, I am directed by Mr.
Secretary Balfour to state, for the information of Mr.
Secretary Long, that there is no objection, so far as this
Department is concerned, to this exemption being put into
force.
I am to add that His Majesty's Consul-General at
Batavia has been instructed by telegraph that Certificates
of Interest will not in future be required in the above men'
tioned cases.
I am,
Under Secretary of State,
Colonial Office. S..
sir,
Your most obedient
humble servant.
Ronald Macleay
CONTROLLER.