Any further communication should be addressed to:-
THE ASSISTANT SECRETARY, at the address given opposite.
The following letter and number should be quoted:-
C.R.T. 1308/20.
Telegraphic Address:
COLASTA, PARL, LONDON.
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COMMERCIAL RELATIONS AND TREATIES
DEPARTMENT,
BOARD OF TRADE,
GREAT GEORGE STREET,
DISABLED
COPY.
LONDON, S.W.1.
Telephone No.: 3840 Victoria.
8th November, 1928.
Cahy to F.O
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sir,
With reference to your letter of the 3rd October
(No.52835/28) on the subject of the alleged discrimina-
tion against United States interests in Hong-Kong, I am
directed by the Board of Trade to state that there is,
in their view, no analogy between the voluntary purchase
by a Government of all the omnibuses for its service in
the United aingdon, and the forced purchase by a private
organisation of its omnibuses in the United Kingdom
because the Government refuses to license any foreign
made vehicles.
The case appears to the Board to involve a similar
issue to that which arose in the Malay States where the
Government sought to place dredging restrictions on the
use of foreign dredging machinery. Mr. A ery will
recollect the correspondence on this subject under your
reference 29007/27 and will be aware that in the Board's
view a refusal on the part of a Goverment to allow
The Under-Secretary of state,
Colonial Office,
S.A.1.