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in the case
Economizing labour, he obtained the sanction of the Treasury for adopting,
of Hong Kong, the Postal non system of accounting, which will not only greatly simplify the accounts, but will
reduce the sinus
the work connected with
the
despatch and receipt
of mails.
Under this plan, in
of an apportionment mail by mail of the postage collected in this Country, and in the Colony, upon letters and various other descriptions of Postal matter each Post Office will retain the whole of the postage it
collects,
whether in the...
form of stamps affixed in prepayment of outward correspondence,
or money received on
delivery of unpaid inward correspondence.
This Department will either provide or pay foreign Countries for the conveyance
of the
outward mails, and the Hong Kong Post Office will practically do the same
in regards homeward mails, by accounting to their Department, for correspondence sent via Brindisi, at the
Postal Union sea rates,
and also
the
amount
paid to France and Italy
for the Continental transit.