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COPY. No. 2 in 8268/08.

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Enclosure 1.

(2).

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CO 15754

Government House, ||

Hongkong, 4th. April, 1911.

I have the honour to acknowledge receipt of

your despatch of March 28th. numbered 2330/1 giving cover to your

despatch of same date to the War Office on the subject of Liquor

duties, and inviting my remarks upon it.

2.

I have not any observations of importance to

offer but I would suggest for Your Excellency's consideration that

a copy of the local Hansard report of the debates on this Bill

might with advantage be enclosed for the information of the War

Office as to the reasons which guided the Colonial Administration

in their action in this matter.

3.

In regard to paragraph 5 I may observe that the

price of English Beer in the public houses of the Colony is 20

cents per pint, so that even at the increased rate at which Your

Excellency says that the troops will now have to be charged they will obtain their beer at 3 cents per pint cheaper than anyone else

in the Colony. I may also observe that whereas the duties on every

class of wine and spirits was raised on 16th. March last (the duties on all kinds of Chinese liquors even the lowest grade being doubled) no increase whatever was made in beer or stout. As will

be seen from the speeches in debate this course was adopted not

without regard to the result to His Majesty's Forces. Though it is a point of secondary importance I demur to the accuracy of the phrase that the abolition of the rebate was made with retrospect- -ive effect from January 1st., 1911. The rebate to the troops which was a matter of considerable debate when the Liquor duties were first introduced (vide Hansard for 1909, page 124 et. seq.)

was granted only from year to year and failing renewal by Resolut- -ion of the Legislative Council expired automatically on December 31st. It was made on the specific proviso that it should not be devoted to cheapening the liquor in Canteens, which owing to the

fact