CO129-272 - Governor Sir Robinson - 1896 [5-9] — Page 13

the

open ports of Japan to ports in Formosa where Imperial Custom Houser are established or from Formosan ports where Imperial Custour Houses are ecto- blished to Japanese open ports should

be treated in the same way transported from one to another, and that

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cargo Japaneve opon port.

cargo transported from Formosan ports where no Swepe= rial Customs Howwe is established, in : respect of which satisfactory proof is produce

eed to the Commissioner of Custouns

a

For-

that it has been conveyed from

port, should be treated in the

UNAUer.

The question has

whether thir

arrangement.

now alivan

ent is applicable only to direct shipments between Formo=

sa and

Japars: or whether the above.

treatment can be claimed in respect of

through Bill

cargo, accompanied by of Lading, shipped from Formosa, but transhipped at StongKong in rouse for

Japan

to Secretory,

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Japan. Although the Austous charges

Revied on

Austauscharge

cargo of sugar recently shipped from Takao to Yokohama under Khrough Bill of Lading allowing of

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Cave

kaushipment at storigKong and actually,

transhipped, were, as a special and on the production of satisfactory evidence as to the origin and destination of the

cargo, refunded by the Japanese Government, it is considered doubtful

whether the treatment accorded in this

instance can be generally clained as a matter of right,

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ani

therefore to request that I may be favoured for the information of His Excellency the Governor and for transmission to the Secretary of State with the views of the Chamber of Commerce is to whether the effect of the privilege, if claimed and accorded, would be likely to prove beneficial or otherwise to the trade of

this Colony.

Chamber of Commerce,

€

I have.

B2. J. H. Stewart Lockhart

Colonial Secretary.