will be £1,170, to which we think it will,
be fair to add £100 per annum for expenses of occasional personal inspections of the Agencies which we consider will be very
greatly conducive to the efficiency
desirable and to the service.
32.
The Superintending Post Offices proposed, that this annual contribution
to the
expense of the Agencies shall be paid to the Colonial Government
in
the shape of a portion of the postages —
Commensurate with the trouble,
responsibility and expenses involved upon all correspondence to and from those lines Ports and Japan passing
through this Superintending Office, but looking at the fact that, in the last annual Report of this Office, a considerable diminution in the number of Letters and the amount of postages collected, appears as compared with the previous year, and
we
find from the accounts for the half
year ending the 30 June last, that this decrease in the correspondence continues,
we do not think it would be an equitable
arrangement to fix this pary to the Colony by a share of this postage (evidently decreasing) while the expenses of management would
remain stationary, and we submit, therefore, that the Colony should receive
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