CO129-400 - Governor Sir May - 1913 [3-4] — Page 463

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12th. Day of February, 1913.

Export of Limestone.

Subsequent to the interview, which His Britannic

Majesty's Consul-General had on the 28th. of January with the Tu

Tu with regard to the question of the supply of limestone to the

Green Island Cement Company, it was suggested that the General Managers should discuss the matter once again with the Industrial

Commissioner.

Their local representative accordingly called a few days

later on Mr. Kuan, but unfortunately no conclusion was arrived at, as the latter categorically refused to consider any way out of the

present impasse, until the Company had withdrawn its claims for

damages.

It will be remembered that at the interview referred to,

The Tutu expressed a strong desire to treat the subject in dispute on what was termed a "commercial", as distinguished from a "Treaty" basis. Although, as was pointed out at the time and subsequently confirmed, in a memorandum addressed to the Commissioner for Foreig Affairs on the 31st. January, 1913, Mr. Jamieson finds himself un-

-able to appreciate this distinction, he would, after consultation

with the Company's Managers, put forward a solution, of which the

nature might well be called commercial.

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That the Company have sustained serious pecuniary losses through the action of the Provincial Government action taken

arbitrarily and without previous notice is beyond a doubt, and that they are in equity entitled to compensation therefor it is equally impossible to dispute, still with a view to determining the present intolerable situation, they are prepared, with the

sanction of His Majesty's Minister, to waive their claim on the