IMPORTS AND EXPORTS DEPARTMENT.
With the exception of the Treasury th
Imports and Exports Department is the largest
revenue collecting of all the Government
departments. The staff is however chiefly
occupied in the prevention of smugling and
evasion of excise duties. Hong Kong is go
situated that it is peculiarly easy for the
smuggler of opium, liquor and tobacco to bring
his wares into the Colony. The staff of
eighteen European and ninety six Chinese Reven
Officers is not too large for the work to be
performed. The more that smuggling can be
prevented the greater will be the revenue. It
was for this reason that the Commission ers
informed the Government last September that
they agreed to the building of a new launch fu;
the department.
2.
No reduction is recommended in the sti
of the Statistical Branch.
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