CO129-517-1 Administration and function of Chinese Maritime customs- prevention of smuggling across Chinese frontiers 7-2-1929 - 15-11-1929 — Page 92

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I can find no rcply from the Colonial Office nor

any communication from the British Lcgation on this subject: but, as a matter of history, the view of Major- Gencral Black prova ilcd. The sub-stations of the Chinese

Maritime Customs have bech removed to Chinese territory at Sham-chun, Sha-tau-kok and along the coast of Miss Bay, while the officer of the Foreign Inspectorates, still called "Commissioner of Customs for Kowloon and District", remains to this day in Hong Kong island, only "unofficially acknowledged in Sir R. Hart's phrasc, with a residence on the Peak and an office in Victoria City. Morcover, the questions raised by Mr. Fleming in 1890 as to the exact position of the Kowloon Commissioner, his powers, whom he really represents and to whom he is responsible have never been answered.

The only further cvent to record in this connection is that, upon the opening of the Kowloon-Canton Railway in October, 1911, it was arranged for the convenience of through traffic that Chinese import dutics should bc collected by the Kowloon Commissioncr at the railway terminus at Kowloon Point in British tcrritory.

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