CO129-521-12 Chinese Customs- proposed agreement with Hong Kong 2-4-1930 - 16-6-1930 — Page 214

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Agreement was carefully examined and it was agreed

that it would form a suitable basis for the draft

of a new agreement. A drafting committee examined

this draft in detail, making such amendments as both

sides considered desirable, and the draft prepared

by the Committee was considered at a second conference,

on the 29th July, and finally approved with certain

alterations. The general principle of the Agreement

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was also accepted subsequently by the Executive

enclosed wis Council. A copy of this first draft is amper d..

The position of the two sides in the se

negotiations was summarized afterwards by Mr. G. S.

Moss, the Acting Consul-General at Canton, who had

taken part in the discussions, as follows:

"On the HongKong si de there appeared to be

willingness in the interests of the safeguarding

of the Chinese Customs revenue and of the

facilitation of British trade to make great

concessions to permit of a large increase in

the Chinese Customs staff to co-operate in the

Colony and its waters with the Colonial

rand

authorities as regards the extension of control,

at the Kowloon Railway terminus, the harbour,

junk anchorages and afloat, of shipping and cargoes

destined for China. This included proposals for the joint controlof exports of salt, and

involved plans for the joint collection of reliable

statistics, the registration and control of

shipping, the establishment of Customs sub-stations,

the joint control of exports of explosives,

munitions