CO129-290 - Governor Sir Blake - 1899 [1-4] — Page 10

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Hong-Kong, 6th. January, 1899.

sir,

I have the honour to acknowledge the receipt

of your Circular despatch of the 9th. November last and its

enclosure containing the suggestion that Colonial Governments

should satisfy themselves that goods bearing marks indicating

British origin, which arrive in a vessel which has cleared from

a British port, are really of British production or manufacture

and are not foreign goods which have merely passed through the

United Kingdom.

2. There is no Customs establishment in this

Colony, and no means of examining imports, and I find on inquiry that very few complaints have ever been received here of

breaches of the Act. Under the circumstances I fear that such

an examination as that suggested is impracticable.

I have the honour to be,

sir,

Your most obedient

Humble Servant,

Henry

GOVERNOR,&C.

The Right Honourable

JOSEPH CHAMBERLAIN,M.P.

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