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FFC16
February
Sir:-
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,1916.
I am directed by Secretary Sir E. Grey to inform you that in the month of November last His Majesty's Consul-General at Rotterdam was authorised on the application of Messrs. Van Ommeren (London) Limited of 27 Leadenhall Street, E.C. to issue a shipment permit in respect of three thousand cases of Belgian window glass (marked M.B.). A permit has been issued and Sir E. Grey is informed by the firm that the goods, which are consigned to the Hong Kong and Shanghai Banking Corporation at Hong Kong, are being transhipped in London.
The present regulations governing the exportation of Belgian goods to British Colonial territory require that they should be accompanied by a Consular Certificate of Origin but such has not been issued in the present case as those regulations were not in force when application was originally made to this Department in the matter, and in these circumstances Sir E. Grey would be glad, if there is no objection, if Mr. Secretary Bonar Law would be so good as to cause the Governor of Hong Kong to be
instructed
The Under-Secretary of State,
Colonial Office.
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