CO129-541-5 Harbour Light dues- proposed amendments 11-8-1932 - 22-5-1933 — Page 19

Telegrams- "SHIPMINDER, PARL, LONDON," Telephone-WHITEHALL 5140 Ext.

Any further communication on this subject should be addressed to :-

The Assistant Secretary,

Mercantile Marine Department

(address as opposite)

and the following number quoted :—

M.13815/32.

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MERCANTILE MARINE DEPARTMENT,

BOARD OF TRADE,

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FICE

WESTMINSTER, S.W.1.

25th October, 1932.

I am directed by the Board of Trade to refer to your letter of the 17th October, (No.92701/32), enclosing a copy of a letter from Messrs. John Swire & Sons, Limited, on the subject of the Hong Kong Light Dues and to acquaint you, for the information of the Secretary of State for the Colonies, that a copy of the relative correspondence had already been received in this Department from the

Department of Overseas Trade under cover of communications of which a copy is enclosed herewith.

The Board observe from the correspondence that Hong Kong Harbour is not maintained entirely out of the dues levied on shipping; that the dues, although called "light dues", are largely applied to general harbour purposes and not solely to the maintenance of lighthouses, buoys

The Under-Secretary of State,

Colonial Office,

S.W.1.

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