CO129-443 - Governor Sir May - 1917 [7-9] — Page 76

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No. 3456/1916.

Enclosure

8.

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Sir,

Colonial Secretary's Office,

1917.

Hongkong, 14th. June,

I am directed to forward for the observations

of your Committee & copy of a letter received from the Commodore

with reference to your report of the 12th. June, and to request

the comment of your Committee thereon.

2.

It is understood that the Superintendent of

Imports and Exports has furnished you with statistics of the trade

of this Colony during the first five months of the present year,

and I am to enquire whether these statistics oause the Committee

to modify in any way the conclusions they have indicated in their

report of the 8th. instant, on the subject of the British tomage

which may be withdrawn from Far Eastern trade.

I am &o.,

(sd.) Claud Severn,

Colonial Secretary.

G. T. Edkins, Esq.,

c/o Messrs. Butterfield & Swire,

Hongkong.