CO129-459 - Individuals - 1919 — Page 27

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that the absence of these trade marks, which had been introduced into the Colony for years, was greatly militating against the sale of their goods. During my original interview with an Officer of your Depart- ment I was certainly given to understand that, if we could obtain a Declaration from the Courts establishing our right to the goodwill and trade marks of the old firm, we should be granted every facility to enable us to make use of these trade marks in Hongkong, and it was no- ver indicated that the assignation of these trade marks tque was to be made dependent on our making arrangements to liquidate the pre-war liabilities of the Hongkong Branch of the old firm. I would refer you in this

La connection to your letters of the 11th of February 1918, Ref.No.5364/1918 and of the 8th of March 1919, Ref.No.12744/1919,

AK. neither of which makes any reference to the requirements which is nÓW apparently stipulated as a condition precedent to the assignation to us of the trade marks. Had we originally been informed that any such condition would be made, we should certainly not have gone to the

trouble and expense of obtaining the Declaration from the Courts which you asked for, and would have preferred to dispense with the use of the old trade marks until such time as we could enforce our righte

against the old firm.

a) In the second place, the deficit arising out of the liquida-

tion of the Hongkong Branch of the old firm is due to the fact that this was a branch only, and the liquidatore have evidenɗtly not taken into account the fact that the Hongkong Firm had a very large credit balance with the head office in Shanghai, which of course could not be recovered by the liquidators.

I have interpreted the recommendation of the Officer admin-