NO CONFIDENTIAL.
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GOVERNMENT HOUSE.
HONGKONG, 6th November, 1930.
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"A.
My Lord,
I have the honour to refer to Your
Lordship's confidential telegram of the 31st of
October, 1930, and previous correspondence
relating to the proposed Customs Agreement.
2. Subsequent to the despatch of my
telegram of the 11th October, I received from
Mr. Maze a further revised draft, containing
certain amendments proposed by the Minister of
Finance and the Director General of Customs.
In accordance with instructions received from
the former, ir. Maze came to Hong Kong to discuss
the draft with me. His Majesty's Minister made
no criticism of this draft.
3.
Apart from one or two points, I saw no
objection to the suggested amendments, and was
prepared to accept them, subject to those points being settled. They were :-
(a) the proposed deletion of the preamble on
the ground that it tended to give the
agreement the status of a treaty, to which
THE RIGHT HONOURABLE
LORD PASSFIELD,
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