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Sub-Enclosure 1.
(Copy.) M2 Kopech to cur
Sin
Houghong, 25 May, 1886.
I have the honour to inform you
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that
the Chinese Government, having resolved to extend the Customs Postal Service to all the
Treaty Ports, as a first step towards the establishment of a
National Post Office, I
have been appointed Postal Commissioner by Sir Robert Hart, the Inspector General of Customs, in order to make the preliminary arrangements for the introduction of the
new
system.
As the extension to all the open ports of the Chinese Postal Administration will with the necessity of maintaining the branches of the Hongkong Post Office, and other foreign postal agencies
do away!
The Hon'ble Alfred Lister
Postmaster General
Hongkong
established.