CO129-407 - Public Offices & Others - 1913 — Page 41

C. 10275/12.

Board of Trade,

7, Whitehall Gardens,

S.W.

10th January, 1913.

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Gentlemen,

With further reference to your letter of the 19th December and previous correspondence, I am directed by the Board of Trade to state that in the absence of any information as to the firms in Hong Kong who are alleged to be selling spirits under a false trade description and as to the nature of the description under which such spirits are being sold, they fear it will not be A possible for any action to be taken in the matter. copy of the correspondence has however been forwarded to the Colonial Office.

I am to add that the information given in your letter of the 26th December respecting the export of whisky from Hamburg to Bangkok is also of too indefinite

a character to enable the Board to take any action; while a regards the postcript to that letter it would appear from the Statistical information in the Board's possession that practically all the spirits (including whisky) im- ported into India are consumed in that country, and that the re-exports of such spirits from India are compara-

The Board have no tively negligible in quantity.

information

Messrs Slater, Rodger & Co., Ltd., 5, West Scotland Street,

Glasgow.

as