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be obtained,
5. Under these circumstances I would suggest that the Crown Agents be instructed to procure from Mess? ==
thirty-two cent stamp
De La Rue a as per margin, and forward, say 500- sheets of it as early
prachcable,
as may
may be
6. Should this suggestion be
approved, I would submit that the supply of thirty-cent stamps be discontinued and that 500 sheets of 32 cent stamps
be sent each half-year in lei thereof. that the half-yearly supply of 2 cent stamps be reduced from 615 sheets to 500 sheets, and that of the 244 cent stamps be reduced from 295 sheets to 250 sheets.
these
these and other reductions which the introduction of the 32 cent stamp will permit, but all of which it would be unsafe possibly to make at once, will
considerable annual saving in
effect
a
the cost of printing the supplies of
postage stamps, whilst the cost of the plate for the new stamp will be between £80 and £40, outlay which can well
be borne
as
aw
the postal revenue to the
Colony from 1th January to the present
date is about $10,000 more than it
in the corresponding period of last-
was
year.
7. As
a matter of safely I would propose that before the work of engraving the new plak be put in
hand
JU