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the Straits where there is a Government establishment for printing. This may be cheaper than local Printing
simplifying
Office where there can be
no
if
competition. Again
this is not desirable
in
money be preferable to
fund forms & perhaps
in England.
Blue Books.
2m 10/12
M. Hearde
/Estimate for
waking printing in the
Hong Kong
is $9075 this
J
by Bot
"exclusive
of stationery, which is apparently applied
In the Straits it is $9000
Everything included.
In Ceylon it is something quite
to about $22,000 exclusive of stationery.
h.144p
the Estimate)
the Mauritius,
Can Equal
about $11,000, And in this Colony,
as in Hong Kong, it is done by
private bargain.
We have
Z
knowing how much printing
done for those
respective sums
But except that the cost of printing
the Government Gazette in Mauritius is very great [it is not distinguished in
the Estimate, but I gather it is about
a fourth of the whole cost], there
must be
much more
done for the
money
in Mauritius
than there is in Hong Kong.
we might ask the
a report
I think
Governor for
from the
in