Anticipated by you swing to the possibility of the supply in your office falling short of the requirements of the Colony, I would suggest that a reserve of postal orders to the value of £5000 be retained in your office in future, and that quarterly requisitions be made to this Department for amounts to represent the average quarterly issue in the Colony.
This course would, it is thought, obviate all risk of the supply in your office becoming deficient at any time, while it would also prevent the necessity for so large a demand being preferred at any one time.
(signed) Calw & Hea
No. 732.
Copy
C. O.
19819
RECE
General Post Office
465
Hong Kong, Sept 8, 1886.
In acknowledging with thanks the supply of Postal Orders forwarded with your letter No. 224X of July 30, the receipted Requisition relating to which is Enclosed, I have the honour to say that I shall gladly adopt your suggestion to establish a reserve of these Orders as a security against running out, and of keeping our Requisitions as close to the numbers actually possible.
The following quantities of Postal Orders have been accordingly put into reserve.
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Blackwood Esq., C.B.
London.