CO129-451 - Public Offices - 1918 — Page 88

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apparently based on the Nippon Co.'s rates of 1917, and the

Moreover, it may be Government may now wish to revise them. advisable, in view of the new rates and the increased difficulty of securing berths by the Nippon Line to, send some Hong Kong passengers via Canada without any preference for that route being expressed by them, in which case the whole cost of the passage

We propose, subject

should presumably be paid from Colonial funds,

to the approval of the Secretary of State, to deal with each case aa it arises on these lines and to report to the Colonial Government any case in which we find it advisable to book a pasange via Canada and pay the whole cost.

4. I may add, with regard to paragraph 2 (g) of our letter under reference, that the Nippon Line now decline to carry

women or children.

I have the honour to be, Sir,

Your Obedient Servant,

for Crown Agents.

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