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Serial
No.
From or to whom.
Despatch No., &c.
Date.
1917
Subject.
Page.
443
Serial No,
From or to whom.
Despatch No., &c.
Date.
1
To the Governor.
Circular
1916
September 25
General
and
Governors
2
The Commissioner... Somaliland,
134
3
The Governor
St. Helena, 57
4
Ditto
Sierra Leone,
526
5
The Acting Governor
British Guiana, 491
6
The Commissioner...
Weihaiwei, 43
Bubject.
October 26 (Rec. Nov. 21)
Notifies appointment of a Committee to consider commercial and indus- trial policy of the United Kingdom after the War: encloses terms of reference and list of members, and requests views on the recommenda- tions of the Economic Conference of the Allies, and on the questions submitted to the Committee.
1917
io
The Governor
Fiji,
25
Page
11
Ditto
1
12
The High
Commissioner
Observes, in reply, to No. 1, that in the circumstances indicated he can- not usefully offer any suggestions.
2
January 2 (Rec. Feb. 28)
Falkland February 1
Islands, (Rec. Marchi 9)
18
South February 14 Africa (Rec. March 18) (Southern Rhodesia),
105
13
The Governor
Uganda, 32
8
November 29, 1916 (Reo. Jan. 6, 1917)
December 30, 1916 (Reo. Jan. 18, 1917)
December 22, 1916 (Itec. Jan. 23, 1917)
December 15, 1916 (Rec. Feb. 5, 1917)
Reports that the circumstances of the Colony do not appear to call for special attention in connexion with the recommendations of the Economic Conference of the Allies.
Submits observations in reply to No. 1, and encloses a report on the trade of the Colony by the Comptroller of Customs and a letter from the Freetown Chamber of Commerce.
2
Communicates the views of the George- 10
town Chamber of Commerce and the British Guiana Planters' Asso- ciation on the question, and also the terms of a resolution of the Com- bined Court passed on 19th July, 1916, on the subject of preferential trade within the Empire.
Observes that there do not appear to be any special circumstances affect- ing the Territory which demand the special attention of the Conference, and that it would be best to accept any scheme which may be decided upon for Hong Kong.
Asks, in reply to No. 4, whether there
is any definite evidence of the exist ence of a combine of European merchants in Sierra Leone, and what are the grounds of his view that palm products are the produce of the State lands and may be regarded as the property of the State.
12
12
7
To the Governor
Sierra Leone, 44
February 5
14
Ditto
Trinidad, 55
15
Ditto
Jamaica, 91
January 29 Rec. March 16)}
February 16 (Rec. March 26)
March 10 (Rec. March 27)
16
Ditto
Mauritius, 28
January 31 (Rec. March 28)
Transmits copy of a letter from the 37
Colonial Sugar Refining Company submitting remarks on the question as affecting the production of sugar in the Colony.
Reports opinion of Executive Council that the interests of the Colony will be amply protected by any action taken in the Imperial cause, and that the circumstances of the Colony do not call for any special attention.
Transmite copy of a despatch from the Administrator submitting his views; asks that his suggestion that, in the event of any overseas repre- sentatives in addition to those of India and the Dominions being in- vited to the proposed conference, Southern Rhodesia could be allowed to send her own representative, may be favourably considered.
Submite his views, and encloses reso- lutions of the Uganda Chamber of Commerce.
Transmits copy of a statement by the Chamber of Commerce giving their views, and of a resolution of the Legislative Council; the principles laid down by the Economic Confer- ence command general assent: sub- mits remarks and encloses a state- ment by the Collector of Customs describing trade conditions in the
of Colony; suggeste formation Customs Union for the West Indian Colonies.
B
Transmits copy of a report by a special committee of the Jamaica Agricultural Society acting in co operation with the Merchants' Exchange, and of a letter from Mr. B. Donald, at Brussels, in 1912, on the subject of the French Customs duties on Jamaica produce.
Transmite copy of a letter from the local Chamber of Commerce for- warding resolution asking for prefer- ential treatment of the Mauritius sugar in the markete of the United Kingdom; expresses general accord of himself and his advisers.
88
39
49
54
59
61
8
The Governor-
General
Nigeria, 68
February 5 (Rec. Feb. 27)
Transmits a report of a debate in the Nigerian Council, and submnite his own views.
12
9
The Governor
Fiji, 14
January 22 (Reo. Feb. 28)
Encloses letters from the Suva and Levuka Chambers of Commerce and the report of a Committee appointed to consider and report on the special position of Fiji, and submits his own recommendations.
82
17
Ditto
Sierra Leone, 58
March 12 (Rec. April 2)
98793.
A 2.
Replies to No. 7 as to the existence of a combine in the palm kernel industry, and encloses a memoran- dum by the Comptroller of Customs.
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