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additional Tax would be called the Gap Rock Lighthouse rate, and that it would cease when the Gap Rock Lighthouse expenditure was paid off. A verbatim report of the
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circumstances under which this pledge was given will be found in the annexed copy of a letter from the General Chamber of Commerce to the Colonial Secretary at Hong Kong, dated the 30th July 1896.
In that letter it is also pointed out that, in accordance with an official return issued by the Hong Kong Government, the total amount raised under this additional levy of 1 cents per ton had exceeded the sum expended on the Gap Rock Lighthouse, the telegraphic cable connecting it with Hong Kong, and the cost of maintenance, by upwards of $40,000, and the Committee of the Chamber of Commerce, therefore, suggested that the time had arrived to ask the Government to redeem the pledge given by Sir William de Voeux, and to abolish this additional Tax on shipping.
It appears that, beyond the mere acknowledgment of its receipt, no reply has been made by the Government to the letter of the Chamber of Commerce, but on the 3rd
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additional Tax would be called the Gap Rock Lighthouse
rate, and that it would cease when the Gap Rock Lighthouse
expenditure was paid off. A verbatim report of the
Potetster mi woy esethbs 23 romod sad avad sW
it & noi adneo és to synado b xit e 16at Isaoqorq a ot
galqqlas Its no eaud did ze bascual en erutut ni binone
100/2008 B JB ENGL Tacok yool to twodish ant galvSİNG
bis sis no bie: yao10) JBAJ to Itonuo) evijalalged edt
won Vasoroo 9dj bavisoer Issoyong aind redw,jeal 1edme59(
ad! Be 4UODAS ANNONİ O
PIONIER sta vonal:ox? all 20
-jewollut as yniad wa89
250gal auf ,088I LITGÅ 61 200‡YST¶
(cord engid to colJanatronab edc tebou (20iqqida
stic To gaiteel s 4a tumi mod req Jass I To sI81 817 16
(18
‚ek&i zadmesed d‡ll end no blød ‚ffonvo) svizsfærged
of moldihba isiosqz s galzirońtus beaaaq asv sonanibro
vulteer to eBoging end tot,nod reg einso fi to sgrado aind
eild naiw nojtesanoo ni bertuoni ed of enuiibneqxe end
ideell Bina JA .eauod‡dşid Iɔoя qað add to moljsete
circumstances under which this pledge was given will be
found in the annexed copy of a letter from the General
Chamber of Commerce to the Colonial Secretary at Hong Kong,
dated the 30th July 1896.
In that letter it is also pointed out that, in
accordance with an official return issued by the Hong Kong
Government, the total amount raised under this additional
levy of 1 cents per ton had exceeded the sum expended on
the Gap Rock Lighthouse, the telegraphic cable connecting
it with Hong Kong, and the cost of maintenance, by upwards
of % 40,000, and the Committee of the Chamber of Commerce,
therefore, suggested that the time had arrived to ask the
Government to redeem the pledge given by Sir William de
Voeux,
and to abolish this additional Tax on shipping.
It appears that, beyond the mere acknowledgment
of its receipt, no reply has been made by the Government
to the latter of the Chamber of Commerce, but on the 3rd
sp rulII} xlë yonalleoxS elf yd bojuja „1SVOWON
+
BBW $1
2004 gnol to nomevod erit emit 3823 38 ̧xX
JugoiJibbs
OT
December last it became publicly known in Hong Kong (through
the medium of a correspondence on this subject which was
published
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