No.133
Hongkong.
Ms May, Bon
My Lord,
一
374
OFC
23018
28 JUN 07
Government House,
Hongkong, 23rd. May, 1907.
MITED FOR PARLIAMENT
3065 JULY 100/
Referring to Your Lordship's
Despatch No. 40 of the 21st. February last, I have the
honour to forward a Despatch addressed to Your Lordship by
the local Chamber of Commerce on the subject of the renewal
of the adhesion of His Majesty's Government to the
Brussels Sugar Convention of 1902.
2.
The two large and fully equipped
Sugar Refineries established in this Colony control at the
present time by far the larger part of the trade in
refined sugar in the Far Eastern Markets, and I have fully
to endorse the opinion expressed by the Chamber that it is
of the greatest importance in the interests of Hongkong and
of British Trade in the East that the advantages secured by
the Convention should be continued.
I have the honour to be, My Lord,
Your Lordship's most obedient, humble servant,
RIGHT HONOURABLE
THE EARL OF ELGIN, K.G.,
&c.
Officer Administering the Govern-
ment.
&C...
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Hongkong.
Ms May, Bon
My Lord,
一
374
OFC
23018
28 JUN 07
Government House,
Hongkong, 23rd May, 1907.
MITED FOR PARLIAMENT
3065 JULY 100/
Referring to Your Lordship's Despatch No.40 of the 21st February last, I have the honour to forward a Despatch addressed to Your Lordship by the local Chamber of Commerce on the subject of the renewal of the adhesion of His Majesty's Government to the Brussels Sugar Convention of 1902.
2. The two large and fully equipped Sugar Refineries established in this Colony control at the present time by far the larger part of the trade in refined sugar in the Far Eastern Markets, and I have fully to endorse the opinion expressed by the Chamber that it is of the greatest importance in the interests of Hongkong and of British Trade in the East that the advantages secured by the Convention should be continued.
I have the honour to be, My Lord, Your Lordship's most obedient, humble servant,
RIGHT HONOURABLE THE EARL OF ELGIN, K.G., &c.
Officer Administering the Government.
&C...
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Hongkong.
Ms May, Bon
My Lord,
一
374
OFC
23018
28 JUN 07
Government House,
Hongkong, 23rd. May, 1907.
MITED FOR PARLIAMENT
3065 JULY 100/
Referring to Your Lordship's
*
Despatch No. 40 of the 21st. February last, I have the
honour to forward a Despatch addressed to Your Lordship by
the local Chamber of Commerce on the subject of the re-
-newal of the adhesion of His Majesty's Government to the
Brussels Sugar Convention of 1902.
2.
The two large and fully equipped
Sugar Refineries established in this Colony control at the
present time by far the larger part of the trade in
refined sugar in the Far Eastern Markets, and I have fully
to endorse the opinion expressed by the Chamber that it is
of the greatest importance in the interests of Hongkong and
of British Trade in the East that the advantages secured by
the Convention should be continued.
I have the honour to be, My Lord,
Your Lordship's most obedient, humble servant,
RIGHT HONOURABLE
THE EARL OF ELGIN, K.G.,
&cc
५/
Officer Administering the Govern-
-ment.
&C...
★M 4722.
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