CO129-558-11 Mission of Sir F. Leith-Ross to China- proposals for a Hong Kong - China customs... 29-9-1936 - 30-12-1936 — Page 50

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COPY

SPORET

AIR MAIL

GOVERNMENT HOUSE,

HNG KONG,

21st October, 1936.

sir,

In continuation of my secret telegram No.185 of the 12th Cetober, 1936, I have the honour to enclose for your information a copy of the regulations governing "Native Produce shipped from open port to open port via a foreign port or ports" which has since been furnished by the Commissioner of Chinese Maritime Customs for Kowloon and District.

2. The Commissioner in his covering letter states that his office has no statistics showing how much this rivilege has been availed of by shippers, neither has the statistics office of this Goverïment any record of cargo in transit.

3. It seems clear however that this concession is of considersle value to the Colony since it enable a vessels engaged in the coastal trade, of which there is a great number, to call at Hong Kong en route between ports in China without rendering their through cargo liable to duty. I am informed on good authority that, but for this privilege, it would be necessary for most of these vessels to avoid Hong Kong altogether.

I have, etc.

(Ed.) A. Caldecott,

THE RIGHT HON URABLE

*.0.A. CAMSBY-GOR2, P.C., M.P.,

4.

40.,

80.

&c.

Governor, đầu

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