Telegrams- "SHIPMINDER, PARL, LONDON," Telephone-WHITEHALL 5140 Ext.
Any further communication on this subject should be addressed to :-
The Assistant Secretary,
Mercantile Marine Department
(address as opposite)
and the following number quoted :—
M.13815/32.
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MERCANTILE MARINE DEPARTMENT,
BOARD OF TRADE,
GREAT GEORGE STREET,
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FICE
WESTMINSTER, S.W.1.
25th October, 1932.
I am directed by the Board of Trade to refer to your letter of the 17th October, (No.92701/32), enclosing a copy of a letter from Messrs. John Swire & Sons, Limited, on the subject of the Hong Kong Light Dues and to acquaint you, for the information of the Secretary of State for the Colonies, that a copy of the relative correspondence had already been received in this Department from the
Department of Overseas Trade under cover of communications of which a copy is enclosed herewith.
The Board observe from the correspondence that Hong Kong Harbour is not maintained entirely out of the dues levied on shipping; that the dues, although called "light dues", are largely applied to general harbour purposes and not solely to the maintenance of lighthouses, buoys
The Under-Secretary of State,
Colonial Office,
S.W.1.
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