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Post office gives it any great advantage other side, and that the convenience of the General Public is best consulted by establishing the office there.
When the Stamp Ordinance was more unpopular than it probably is now, I had felt that the convenience of its position was likely to be counterbalanced by the advantage of placing the Stamp Office where Mr Rennie might be able to superintend it at its commencement.
Following up the purposes expressed in my despatch No. 116, and for economical reasons, the duties of Stamp Collector to the Head of some existing Department, I have often had much consideration given to appointing Mr Mitchell, the Postmaster General, to be Stamp Collector provisionally, as he has facilities for discharging duties such as any other Head of Department remote from the Office, and I think him qualified for the duties, though not so highly as might have been.
At the same time as Mr Mitchell has been recently recommended on 12th March 1867 for an increase of Salary on account of the responsibility thrown on him.
Mr Rennie would...