CO129-184 - Governor Hennessy - 1879 [1-5] — Page 617

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in which he suggested the establishment

Fa

brauch of the Foreign Customs Inspectorate, either in a Bulk in the Harbor, or in a Custours station on the shore of Chinx forming the worth side of the port, close to the Colonial boundary

the Kowloon

promontory, with the indispensable

every

Sank trading condition that with Stone hour should call at this Customs station to pay duties to the Chinese Government.

15.

It does not

however

en appear

that wither the basis proposed

behalf of the Stowe Kow, Goverment

Kong

(which was, in effect, the permanent

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fiving of the Chinese Customs stations at each end of the Starbon) on Sir Thomas wakes scherne la permanent

Customs station at Kowloon)

submitted for the views of

those

who

really

persons in Stout, Kous represented the interests of the

native trave.

14.

was

The Chinese Merchants

and Traders that I thought it

my buty to speak to from time to time on this subject, pointed out that their native vessels

twere

employed in distributing along the Coast of China

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a vast quantity

British and European goods,

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