3.
482
2.
details
Jonly
ack
for
this vote on
the
condition that nothing is to be spent until I have been able personally to explain the of the Local Delivery Scheme, and to satisfy His Excelle may the Governor both of its necessity and
of
the adequacy of the proposals submitted . But if the provision of necessary funds stands over till my return to the Colony in October next, the
the
establishment could be in existence before 1891, and thus
3.
x
whole
year will be lost. The above estimate can be
reduced to about $3650 when
a new Post
ap
One more
Office is built. The rent of premises and " ollowances for lodging will disappear, also the Superintendent's salary. clerk would be wanted (say at $60) to replace the Superintendent, but the duty of supervision would be carried on by the Assistant Postmaster General myself.
ft:
That a
aud
great part of
the above!
expenditure will be recovered in portage is
shown
shown by the fact that a Local Post Office in
considerable larger
Shanghai, with
OL
Chinese stuff than that provided for above,
parp
its own.
expenses, and I believe it
rates have even been reduced, as
they
were
was not desired.
yielding a profit, which What increase of postage may
be
expected.
when proper tooal facilities are given, I
cannot say, for no separate account has been
bway, - Kept of stamps sold for local use under our present makeshift system, but if focal Delivery pay in Shanghai, there would seem
why it should not pay in Hongkong.
By Local Delivery
Meason!
J.
to be no
must be understood
the distribution not only of correspondence
originating in the Colony, but also of that which is constantly arriving by local steamers from China, Japan, Jonquir, Cochin China, Siam, the Philippines, the Straits Settlements,
Correspondence from
be
loosely, but conveniently
You
places may
Cermed Contrast Mails.
I have stated so
6.
more distant
often
that local
facilities