CO129-440 - Others & Individuals - 1916 — Page 463

PATERSON, SIMONS & CO LTD

LONDON, SINGAPORE, PENANG

AND

FEDERATED MALAY STATES.

TELEGRAMS,

PATERSON-FEN - LONDON.

PATERSON-SINGAPORE

PATERSON-PENANG

CODES.

Western UNION

UNIVERSAL

BROONHALL'S STANDARD PREMIER

रह

London House,

Crutched Friars,

462

London

4th May,

1916.

BENTLEY'S

WATKINS

ABC

TELEPHONE

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3293 AVENUE 14 LINES)

300/E.B.

The Under Secretary of State,

Colonial Office,

21141

REC REGP 4 MAY 16

S. F.

Sir.

REFERENCE NO.19815/1916.

We have your favour of the 3rd instant, and we thank you

for agreeing to release the 600 Bags of Pepper now lying in Hongkong

for shipment to Mesara.S.L.Jones & Co., San Francisco. We shall

be pleased to give the undertaking for which you ask, and we have

this morning cabled to our Singapore Firm instructing them not to

ship in future without first obtaining a through permit from the

Governor of the Straits Sottlements.

We will refund to you

your telegraphic expenses.

we are,

sir,

Your Obedient Servants,

FOR PATERSON, SIMONS & CO LTD

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Managing DiragtOZ.

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