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under the notice of His Excellency Sir John Bouring by me, with a view to his personally bringing them under the notice of His Lordships the Post Master General and Mr. Rowland Hill in London, and I now ask to be favoured
with the approval or otherwise of the Honorable the Acting Governor to the
Same.
I have &c.
(Signed) F.M. Mitchell,
Acting Post Master.
(Approved)
M. Macdonnell
Colonial Secretary
(Copy)
Sir,
Post Office, Hongkong,
16th May, 1839.
565
I do myself the honor to
bring under your notice two Systems
or plans by which I conceive great, and
under some circumstance, most valuable
advantages to the Mercantile Community
here would accrue, they are as follows. Firstly: I would suggest that the Post Office building be entirely remodelled
And fitted with private boxes with plate glass doors to them, so arranged that the proprietors of such Boxes could
A Hill, Esquire
London.