✔ THE CEMENT MARKETING COMPANY LTK2,
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INLAND TELEGRAMS
PORTLAND
PARL LONDON
CABLES
PORTLAND LONDON
SELLING ORGANIZATION OF
THE ASSOCIATED PORTLAND CEMENT MANUFACTURERS, LIMITED. THE BRITISH PORTLAND CEMENT MANUFACTURERS, LIMITED.
PORTLAND HOUSE, TOTHILL STREET
WESTMINSTER, LONDON
S.W.I
Reference Export W.G.C.
CODES USED
A.IA B.C 5TH & 6TH EDITIONS BENTLEY'S
LIEBERS LIEBERS 5 LETTER MARCONI'S INTERNATIONAL WESTERN UNION
14-0
The Secretary of State for
Colonial Office,
S.W.1.
Sir,
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1. Our obligations to supply the goods we sell are entered into by us upon the express understanding that we have the right to suspend deliveries, without involving any responsibility to us, by us in connection with the proposed shipment after receipt of instructions to ship, including the charges so far as incurred up to the time of during any period prevention or delay attributable to any of the following causes, viz. :-War, fire, strikes, combinations of workmen, lock-outs, fog, snow, ice, peril of the seas or rivers, shipping 2. In the event of buyers and/or their Agents giving us shipping instructions, and afterwards finding it necessary to cancel them, such cancellation can only be accepted on the terms that buyers to bulk, including any damages to casks. If we are able to arrange for the transfer of the whole or part of the goods to another purchaser the original buyer will have the benefit of any charges saved delays, railway de or any accident or cause beyond the control of ourselves and/or our manufacturers. The following conditions shall form the basis of our correspondence:-
3. All offers are subject to acceptance by return of post unless otherwise stated. cancellation of the packing and lighterage of the:
accept full responsibility to us for all expenses incurrement to vessel; and any demurrage, dock dues and rent incurred on craft, and the cost of returning the Cement to Works and its restoration
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1st July, 1932.
the Colonies,
RECEIVEL
4 JUL 1932
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HONGKONG - CEMENT.
We have the honour to bring to your notice
a statement which has been made to us by one of our
staff who has lately been visiting Hongkong with regard
to the construction of a large water Scheme in that Colony.
It is stated that the P.W.D. Authorities in
that Island would not be averse to allowing Japanese cement
to be used on this Contract. They are stated to have
expressed an opinion that although it was a pity that so
important an order should go outside the British Empire,
as Japanese cement was of uniform quality, they did not
think that the Colony could be expected to pay double
the price for the sake of being patriotic. They went
on to state that if Messrs. Binny Son & Deacon, the
Consulting Engineers, insisted on the use of British cement,
they would have to prove conclusively that the increased
cost east was warranted.
Whilst we make it a rule never to deprecate the
qualities of the cement manufactured by our Competitors,
we do think that if Japanese cement can be purchased in
Hongkong at a price 50% under that of either cement from
the Green Island Cement Works, or from England, due
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