DRIFT.
The Secretary to The G.P.O.
MINUTE.
Mr. Cheas
Mr.
GPD Hongkong
6 Feb. 1943
Airfield 6703
Mr. Wingfield.
X Mr. Brumston.
Mr. Meade.
Sir R. Herbert.
Baron de Worms.
Lord Knutsford.
In reconsideration
7 Feb.
I am directed by Lord Knutsford
to ack: your letter of
No 35.α Percift 9th Jan no 35 in which it is suggested
that the proposed increase to the salaries
of the postal agents at the treaty ports
should be made out
of the colonial revenue.
The argument used is that the Imperial subsidy
of £710
at the reduced rate of silver, now worth,
$4484 instead of $3408,
and that as
The colony