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Hongkong & Whampoa Dook Company, Limited FC
R 26DEC16
Hongkong, 7th. Gotober, 1916.
The Honourable Colonial secretary,
Hongkong.
sir.
BUILDING AND REPAIRE TO JEUTRAL SHIPS!-
With reference to my interview with you this morning
I beg to report that we have at present under construction at
Kowloon Dockyard for neutral owners the following steamships.
Two vessels for Brusgaard Klosterud, Dramèn
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Two vessels for Hans Kaler & Co., Dramen
Two vessels for the Bian stean Navigation Co., Bangkok.
These vessels are partly completed, a good deal of
the steel framing material has arrived from America and the
balance is on the wây. The owners of the four Horwegian
steamships have just agreed to pay a considerable extra price to cover the cost of this and the remainder of the steel plates
originally ordered fron England which we have had now to get
from America. These steel plates are to be shipped from the
Pacific Coast before the end of the year, and we anticipate
the vessels will be completed in april or May 1917. The Dook
Company's contract with the owners is to hand then over in
Hongkong Harbour after a satisfactory trial trip and I shell
be glad if you can assure us that we will be permitted to
complete these contracts.
We have numerous enquiries fron Korwegian owners
for duplicates of those and other ships, all the steel material for which would under present conditions come from
Americs. Would you kindly advise me if we can entertain
fresh contracts@
With regard to repairs to Neutral Vessels as you are
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