CO129-299 - Administrator Major Gen Gascoigne - 1900 [5-6] — Page 183

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Enclosure 1.

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REC 19 JUN 001

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107,108,&109.Leadenhall Street,

London,

K

B.C.

23rd March, 1900.

sir,

Our attention has been called by Mr.D.S.Dody

Burjor of your City to a registration of a label by Messrs. Siemssen and Company of HongKong, No.32 Government Notice 27/1/1900 which is undoubtedly a copy of our label for Mus- tard which we have shipped to your port for the last 30 / 40

years and must have been well known to your Department as we

ship it so largely.

The label is designed so as to deceive the

Chinese and to take away to Germany British: Trade

We quite admit our label is not registered, but

we think you will find that it is an infringement of the act

for anything to be registered to the prejudice of existing

old and established trade, and we trust you will see your way

to take steps to cancel this registration in question.

We understand this registration would not in

any, way enable Messrs Siemssen and Co. to stop our label being imported into HongKong as it existed prior to their regis-

tration.

Thanking you in advance for any steps you may

be disposed to take in this matter and begging you will favor

us with a reply.

je Colonial Secretary

Colonial Secretary's Office,

We etc,

P.Pro.C, & E, Morton,

(Sd.)J.Gall.