subsequent Post Office dates were sent to
firms, and returned.
Or Anore!
I shall be better able to explain the postage marked upon the letter; if you will be kind enough to send
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the Cover.
I beg to refer to GR1178/1922/32(III), which subjects "parcels or covers containing patterns to postage,
The packet in question was brought to this Office in the Ship's bag, and the circumstance of its not having been passed through a Post Office previously to being passed through this Office I humbly submit does not affect the question of its liability to assessment. "The letters contained in a ship's bag have not been passed through a Post Office - Such letters as are
brought by a ship past
a Post Office
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are made up
in a Ship letter Mail, under the seal of the despatching Post Office, and are accompanied by a letter bill or certificate.
I have to
(Signed) S. J. Sales.
A true Copy.
Fredrich H. A. Brun Colonial Secretary.