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RECO REG 4 JUN 181
GOVERNMENT HOUSE.
HONGKONG. 9th. April, 1918.
B.T 59742/16
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With reference to your Despatch No. 319 of
the 15th. December, 1916, I have the honour to forward the
following papers: -
2.
(a). Memorandum by the Acting Superintendent of
Imports and Exports on the organisation of the
Statistical Branch of that Department.
(b). List of Statistical Headings referred to in
paragraph 3 of (a).
(c). Trade Returns for a portion of the year 1917.
The classification of goods in (b) is, as ¿ indicated in the Memorandum, based largely on that employed by the Chinese Maritime Customs. The general advantages of such homogeneity for a port occupying the position of Hongkong in relation to Chinese Trade are obvious. But such a course is specially justified by the fact that the Anglo-Chinese Customs Agreement of Hongkong now awaiting signature provides under Article XII that the Government and the Colony shall "collect and publish statistics of Imports and Exports.
the interests of the Chinese Revenue".
b.
In regard to (c) it will be observed,
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first, that the classification of certain articles notably piece-goods, differs materially from that laid down by (b):
secondly
THE RIGHT HONOURABLE
WALTER LONG, M.P.
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