6578
MERCANTILE MARINE DEPARTMENT,
BOARD OF TRADE,
20, GREAT SMITH STREET,
61529
Fior
3€
110
WESTMINSTER, S.W.1.
15th January, 1929.
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Sir,
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With reference to your letter, 52727/28 of the
21st December, in regard to the proposed amendment of the
Hong Kong Shipping Ordnance of 1899, I am directed by the
Board of Trade to state, for the information of
Mr. Secretary Amery, that they have no observations to
make on the draft Bill except as regards the point to
which attention was called in the letter addressed by
your Department to the Foreign Office on the 21st December
last.
The Bill as drafted fails to deal with the case of
a ship clearing from Hong Kong for some place outside
the inland waters of China and then proceeding to those
waters and trading therein, and I am to suggest that, if
the Secretary of State sees no objection, the officer
Administering the Government of Hong Kong should be
asked to consider whether it is not necessary, if the
position is to be adequately met, for a penalty to be
/imposed
The Under-Secretary of State,
Colonial office,
S.W.1.