report of H.D. Rea and Ed. Mitchell, and
that he will be prepared to carry proposed Money Order Systems into operation
at any
time the Governor of Hong Kong
may find convenient, provided that
Three months' notice be given to this
Department, to enable it to have the
instructions to its Offices and
necessary
Postmaster(s).
In communicating with the
Governor of Hong Kong
on this subject,
I have to request that the Secretary of State for the Colonies will be good enough to forward to his Excellency the
Enclosed printed copies of the Rules
usually adopted in the transaction of Money Order Business between this Country
and the Colonies, and to ask him to
Signify his concurrence in those Rules.
The
only difficulty which has
presented itself, in the consideration
of
this question, is that
the
Hong Kong Post Office, subject always to the approval of the Governor,
but the Postmaster General proposes
to fix, in concert with the Bankers, the
rate per pound Sterling at which Orders
on the United Kingdom shall be granted
at Hong Kong, Shanghai, and
Yokohama,
and
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