CO129-405 - Public Offices - 1913 — Page 36

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PEGO 6 JAN 13,

I have the honour to report the following facts re-

garding the emanrgo laid by the Provincial Goverment of

Canton on the quarrying and export of limestone on be-

half of the Green Island Camant Company, a British Com-

pany of Hongkong.

This Company, of which keesre Showan, Tomes & Com

pany are General ilanagore, have procured their supplies

of limestone for some twenty years past through Chinese

contraetore from quarries on the North and West Rivera.

In 1906 their late llongkong compradors, a British sub-

ject of Chinese descent, who by the exercise of dual

nationality required on his own account the Fei-shu

quarry in the Ying-ts district on the liorth River, WILB

deprived of it by the Imperial Authorities on the ground

that foreignere could not hold land in the interior, and

it was by then sealed up. This is the only instance on

The Right Honourable

Sir Edward Grey, Bart., X.G., K.P.,

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