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"offender according to the law relating to summary
"conviction."
The Netherlands Indian Government suggest that the
penalities provided for in the above clause are hardly
adequate and are not a deterrent for Chinese in view of the gains derived from dealing in false coin and in view also of the dif-
ficulty of detection owing to the number of native craft plying between Chinese ports and Hong Kong as well as the frequent and various shipping opportunities from Hong Kong
to the South.
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It is no doubt this difficulty which accounts as
reported by the Netherland Consul General at Hong Kong, for
only five counterfeit foreign coin cases having been brought
into Court in that Colony during the last ten years.
The Netherlands Indian Penal Code prescribes much heavier penalties for knowingly possessing or having in custody counterfeit coin and the appropriate Authority in Netherlands India are of opinion that if it were known that this offence would be more severely punishable at Hong Kong
than at present, the importation of such coin into the
Archipelago would substantially decrease.
I beg you to be good enough to submit the above to
the consideration of the competent Department of His Majesty's Government and to favour me with a reply in course of time.
I have, etc.,
(Sgd) R. de Marees van Swinderen.