Customs where they were issued, for examination and cancellation. Subsequently, on the representation of the British Minister that the time limit was too short, and proposing that it should be extended to two months, the Revenue Council consented, and amended the provisional Regulations accordingly.
Now that your Excellency wishes the time limit to be again extended, and to be fixed at four months, the Revenue Council have no objection to offer, and are willing to adopt the amendment as a provisional Regulation.
Instructions in this sense have been sent to the Acting Inspector-General of Customs, who will direct the Imperial Maritime Customs Commissioners to act accordingly, and to report any abuses which may arise while these provisional Regulations are in force.
At the request of the Revenue Council, I have the honour to make the above reply to your Excellency, and I avail, &c.
[This Document is the Property of His Britannic Majesty's Government
CHINA TRADE,
CONFIDENTIAL.
[19181]
No. 1.
818
23755
JUL 08
[June 3.]
SECTION 1.
Messrs. C. and E. Morton to Foreign Office.-(Received June 3.)
107-109, Leadenhall Street, London,
Sir,
June 2, 1908. WITH further reference to the correspondence which took place, and especially with respect to our letter of the 29th August, 1907, and your reply dated the 12th September, 1907, we have just received a report from our representative in China, in which he informs us that when he was in Canton he observed bottles of mustard condiment packed in a similar style to ours, bottles similar shape, label in similar colours, with the name "Horton" on in place of our own. These bottles were being sold by two Japanese firms in Canton, but fortunately for the reputation of our goods the boycott of the Japanese, which we understand has taken place in China just recently, has caused them to leave Canton. This only emphasizes the necessity for the conclusion of an Agreement on the subject of trade-marks between the Chinese Government and ourselves, and we trust that this is being kept to the front, and that we may shortly hear that the efforts which His Majesty's Government are making will be crowned with success in this matter.
Yours faithfully
(Per pro, C. and E. Morton),
(Signed) THEO. W. WATKINS.
[1815 c-1]
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Customs where they were issued, for examination and cancellation. Subsequently, on the representation of the British Minister that the time limit was too short, and proposing that it should be extended to two months, the Revenue Council consented, and amended the provisional Regulations accordingly.
Now that your Excellency wishes the time limit to be again extended, and to be fixed at four months, the Revenue Council have no objection to offer, and are willing to adopt the amendment as a provisional Regulation.
Instructions in this sense have been sent to the Acting Inspector-General of Customs, who will direct the Imperial Maritime Customs Commissioners to act accordingly, and to report any abuses which may arise while these provisional Regulations are in force.
At the request of the Revenue Council, I have the honour to make the above reply to your Excellency, and I avail, &c.
[This Document is the Property of His Britannic Majesty's Government
CHINA TRADE,
CONFIDENTIAL.
[19181]
No. 1.
818
23755
! JUL 08
[June 3.]
SECTION 1.
Messrs. C. and E. Morton to Foreign Office.-(Received June 3.)
107-109, Leadenhall Street, London, Sir,
June 2, 1908. WITH further reference to the correspondence which took place, and especially with respect to our letter of the 29th August, 1907, and your reply dated the 12th September, 1907, we have just received a report from our representative in China, in which he informs us that when he was in Canton he observed bottles of mustard condiment packed in a similar style to ours, bottles similar shape, label in similar colours, with the name "Horton" on in place of our own. These bottles were being sold by two Japanese firms in Canton, but fortunately for the reputation of our goods the boycott of the Japanese, which we understand has taken place in China just recently, has caused them to leave Canton. This only emphasizes the necessity for the conclusion of an Agreement on the subject of trade-inarks between the Chinese Government and ourselves, and we trust that this is being kept to the front, and that we may shortly hear that the efforts which His Majesty's Government are making will be crowned with success in this matter.
Yours faithfully
(Per pro, C. and E. Morton),
(Signed) THEO. W. WATKINS.
[1815 c-1]
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