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a week. The
"tolerated for a function of a
than those of the established
is
Post Office.
Post Office to facilitate, not to hinder
business.
3.
In November 1888,
when Mr Travers was
acting Postmaster General, he
again
drew the attention
of the Government to this
matter, and to the illegal
large
manner in which a
number of Chinese letters
find their
way
out of the
Colony through other channels
than
Sir G. William Des Vœux
caused communications to be addressed to several of
Her
Majesty's
Consuls in
China and to the Consul in
Saigon
as well as to the
Governments of Queensland, South Australia, and New-
Zealand, suggesting that in order to prevent letters being clandestinely conveyed by ships into those countries
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