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Secretary,
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CUSTOM HOUSE, LONDON, E.C. 3.
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28 th November, 1917.
[REG 29 NC17]
coter
With reference to Fr. Grindle's letter of the 26th instant,
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No. 57671/1917, regarding importations of tea and sugar from Hong one
I am directed by the Board of Customs and Excise to state that the
concession allowing the importation into this Country without licence
by parcels post of bona fide presents to the addressees is still in
force in respect of the import prohibitions administered by the
Department of Import Restrictions, but that the Royal Commission on
the Sugar Supply have limited the concession to quantities not in
excess of 1 lb of the goods controlled by them.
While therefore this Department acting on instructions from the latter Commission has in the absence of licences seized sugar imported in larger quan ti ties than llb. it has been the practice to admit tea without licence and in the case of composite parcele to withdraw the excess sugar from the parcel and allow tea and other goods to go forward to the addressee unless there was any reason to believe that
the goods were not bona fide gifts.
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