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PUBLIC RECORD OFFICE

Reference :-

C.O. 885

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PUBLIC RECORD OFFICE, LONDON

ANNEXE II.

INSTRUCTIONS for filling up the RETURNS.

1. Each article in the classified list which comes within the description given in the despatch, i.e., of which the importation from all foreign countries amounts to 5 per cent. of the total importation of the article (not being less than 500), should be included in the return..

Articles in the list which do not answer that description in the case of the returning Colony should be omitted.

It has been thought better to present the Board of Trade classification as a whole, although some of the articles enumerated in it are not likely to be part of the mportations into many of the Colonies.

2. Each article returned should be returned with the number prefixed to it in the list.

3. The list is general in its headings, and in making up the returns under those headings the actual articles of trade coming under each heading should be distinguished by sub-heads (a), (b), (c), &c., &c., and by the general trade name under which the articles are sold in the returning Colony. These sub-heads will often be obtainable from the tariff classifications of the returning Colony; but, wherever possible, the principal merchants should be consulted, and the returns of commodities with the reports upon each should be elaborated in the light of their experience of the actual articles in demand in the Colony which are properly included under the genera} headings set down in the list.

4. The return of reasons, &c. should be made in respect of each commodity in order, with the "list" number and sub-head index-letter prefixed for facility of reference.

5. The return of reasons, &c. should deal with each of the headings mentioned

in the despatch in respect of each article returned, that is to say :--

(a.) Price. (N.B. In the case of textile goods the "width" in inches should be

given for each pattern.) -

Where patterns are sent, the fact should be recorded in the return, more than one pattern should, where possible, be sent, and each pattern should bear the "list" number of the commodity it refers to, the name of the country of its origin, and of the Colony from which it is transmitted.

7. The packages containing patterns of all goods sent from the Colony under your Government in response to this despatch should be consigned to the Secretary, London Chamber of Commerce, Eastcheap, London, E.C., as that Chamber of Commerce has undertaken the duty of housing and distributing the samples in this country, and of carrying out any expressed wish of any Colony in regard to their subsequent distribution and ultimate disposition.

The cases containing these patterns should be marked

ANNEXE III.

L.C.C.

SCHEDULE of SUGGESTIONS made by the CHAMBERS OF COMMERCE for the better Sub-Division of the Headings in the List of Commodities.

No. of Heading

in List,

Suggestions.

3.

Sub-divide as-

(a.) Men's.

(b.) Women's.

After No. 9 add brushes.

No. of Heading

in List.

Suggestions.

30.

Remove "cutlery " to separate

head.

Sub-divide "hardware

(a.) Files.

16.

Make a separate head. Dyes :-

(b.) Saws.

(a.) Natural.

(b.) Artificial.

19.

Add sub-heads :—

(6.) Quality.

(r.) Suitability.

(d.) Packing.

23.

(e.) Other causes, in so far as they affect the choice of the article he uses by the

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consumer.

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(c.) Coke.

(d.) Block or patent fuel.

Add sub-heads before (e.) :—

Curtains.

And instead of (e)—

(c.) Edge-tools.

(d.) Engineers' tools.

(e.) Hollow-ware.

Or another suggestion, as--

Brass-foundry. Chandeliers.

Gas and water fittings.

Bedsteads.

Cycles.

Needles.

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6. In sending home patterns, a large discretion is left to each Colony, but it is desirable to include everything within reason in which the foreign style and pattern is preferred, e.g., spades, knives, tools; yaru and textile goods of every description; writing paper, &c.

Hosiery.

Shirts.

Pants.

Socks.

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Fish-hooks.

Pens.

Buttons.

Hollow-ware.