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NA CONFIDENTIAL.
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139
1918 ARV
GOVERNMENT HOUSE.
HONGKONG. 26th. March, 1914.
I have the honour to inform you that on a recent visit to Hongkong en route to Canton and its vicinity to enquire into matters connected with the revenue from Salt in Kwangtung, Sir Richard Dane, the Adviser to the Chinese Government on the re-organization of the method of collecting revenue from Salt, approached me on the subject of enlisting the co-operation of this Government in preventing the smuggling of Salt from its territory into China.
Sir Richard Dane suggested that the best means
of effecting this object might be to place such a tax on Salt produced in or imported into Hongkong as would raise its price to the price of salt in the neighbouring Province. The temptation which at present exists to smuggle the untaxed salt of Hongkong into Kwangtung would thus be removed.
2.
I replied that this Government had not as yet considered the question of taxing salt and that I was doubtful whether a proposal in that direction would meet with your approval. But I informed him that the question of controlling the manufacture and trade in salt had been considered in connection with a proposed Customs Convention with China and I gave him a copy of Articles I
and II of the draft which was submitted in Sir F. Lugard's
Confidential Despatch of the 28th. of April, 1910.
Mor
HURL TO
THE RIGHT HONOURABLE
LEWIS HARCOURT, M.P.,
&c.,
&C..
&c...
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