CO129-454 - Acting Governor Claud Severn - 1919 [4-6] — Page 60

Enclosure 1.

the Rt. Hon. Walter Long,

His Majesty's Principal Secretary

of State for the Colonies.

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The Humble Petition of Tai Yan Steam

Launch Co.,of Victoria in the Colony

of Hong Kong Steam Launch Proprietors

and of Lee Kee Steam Launch Co., Tai

Wing Steam Launch Co., Sam Wo Steam

Launch Co.,Hop Yick Steam Launch Co.,

Weing Hing Steam Launch Co.,1 Wing Shun

Steam Launch Co., Tak Kee, Kwong Fook

Steam Launch Co.,Wai Kee, Tung Kee

Steam Launch Co.,Wing Hing Steam

Launch Co., Chang Put Kee and Tak On

Steam Launch Co.,being all parties

lately engaged in carrying on the

Taumati and Sanshuipo Ferry Services

in the Harbour of Victoria in the

Colony of Hong Kong.

HE WE TH as follows :-

Your Petitioners the Tai Yan Steam Launch Company were originator of organized Ferry Services in the Harbour of Fictoria plying between Victoria and Yaumati and Samshuipo. Flom time to time your other Petitioners, who set on foot Stallar services combined, with your Petitioners the Tai Yan

Cam Launch Company in the services originated by them, is enlarging such services and the resources of the Frides carrying them on and greatly increasing the facili-

as for public traffic across Hong Kong Harbour.

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