CO129-434 - Governor Sir May - 1916 [7-8] — Page 291

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GOVERNMENT HOUSE,

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With reference to the correspondence noted

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in the margin, I have the honour to inform you that at the beginning of this year I took the opportunity of the in- -troduction of the Importation and Exportation Ordinance No. 32 of 1915, under which the Superintendent of Imports

and Exports gets full information of imports, exports and

transit cargo, to have recorded the data upon which trade

statistics for this Colony can be made available. Thanks to the careful and intelligent handling by the Superintend-

-ent of Imports and Exports of the wide powers conferred

upon him, and to the willing co-operation of the Mercantile

Community, and especially of the Chinese section of it, full

information concerning all goods imported into, exported

from or passing through the Colony has been obtained without

detriment to the trade of the Port, and I see no reason why

the collection of such information should not be continued

after the war and I therefore propose to continue it.

It has been found necessary to engage a well qualified clerk to compile the necessary statistics from

the mass of information collected and there being no one in

the Government Service with the requisite knowledge and

experience

THE RIGHT HONOURABLE

2.

ANDREW BONAR LAW, M.P..

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