CO129-492 - Governor Sir Clementi - 1925 [12] - 1926 [1-5] — Page 372

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CONE IR SUTIAL.

C.

357

10070

13 MAY 1922

Government House,

Hong Kong, 8th April, 1926.

sures 1 &

229 3 & 4.

gir,

With reference to my telegrams of the 25th

of March and 7th of April copies of which are enclosed for

convenience of reference, I have the honour to transuit for

your consideration a copy of a letter, together with accounte

from the Chairman of the Board of Directors, Hong Kong,

Canton, and Macao Steamboat Company, Ltd., (the Honourable

Mr. P. H. Holyoak) on the subject of the losses sustained

by the Company in maintaining a steamboat service between

Hong Kong and Canton during the period of the strike and

boycott.

2.

I need scarcely emphasise further the great

importance to the British Community in Shameen of the

maintenance of this service during the past months; and

I consider that the Company has a strong claim to compensat-

ion from Imperial funds for the losses austained by it.

3.

The accounts have been examined by the

Colonial Treasurer who reports that the loss is mainly due

to the fact that owing to the boycott there has been no

cargo beyond that of naval stores and provisions for Shameez,

the freight on which is nagligible in comparison with the

Oost

RIGHT HONOURABLE

LLUTENANT COLONEL L.C.M.S. MERY, M.P.,

Q..

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