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I do not imagine that as British subjects there would in any case be any difficulty in our establishing ourselves in trade in Hongkong, but the point at issue is the following:- Part of the goodwill of our former partnership consists in various valuable trade marks, and in so far as these are re- gistered in Hongkong in the name of our late firm, we are at present precluded from using them in that market. The goodwill however, including these trade marks, belongs exclusively to my brother and myself by virtue of the terms of our late partner- ship deed, and there is little object in our opening a bran Hongkong, unless we are allowed to use the same.
I am moreover particularly anxious to do so in the interests of the manufacturers in Manchester and Bradford, who
the supply us with goods on which these trade marks are used and who have since the war, owing to our disabilities, been unable to compete in the Hongkong market. As a proof of the value of these trade marks, I may mention that several attempts have been made on the part of competing houses, to put imitations thereof on the Hongkong market, but I have been successful in putting a stop to this practice where it has come to my knowledge.
I should be grateful if you could appoint a time for me to call upon you to discuss the matter, when I would bring the necessary documents with me in substantiation of my state- ments. I would mention, that I have discussed the matter with the Foreign Trade Department of the Foreign Office, and in par- ticular with Mr. Rose, the Assistant commercial Attaché at