stationery recently supplied
to this Colony.
foolscap
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Enclosure 1.
C O.
20 265
Cost Audit Cleak to Colonial Secretary .
(Enclosure (Copy.)
et few specimens of forwarded for
are
purposes of comparison, and I believe that the
Sents
t separately.
attention of the Crown Agents has only to be called to
the matter to secure
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better quality of paper in future.
I have the honour to be,
My Lord,
Your Lordship's Most Verdient
Humble Servant,
Dederick Menesty Administering the Government.
Sir,
Audit Office,
233
Hongkong, 13th August, 1889.
As the requisition for Stationery
way
· for the use of all the Departments is on the home, I consider it my duty to bring to
your notice the continual complaints which have been made- by several Departments, of the inferior kind of paper and envelopes
years, in
supplied during these last two order that the frown Agents may be requested. to supply better stationery in future.
The foolscap, although said to 144 lbs. per ream,
weigh
re eame/
that of the
The Honourable
J. Newart, H.B.
Colonial Searching,
ream, is thinner than
weight supplied in former
years
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