regard to the establishment of a Chinese branch of the Hong Kong Post Office.
If, however, it should be decided to introduce into the
Colonial Legislature of song are referring Kong any to the subject, the Postmaster General will be happy to draft being furnished, together with partienters of the scheme proposed
Consider it on a
The details of the present proporal are not given,
but
it is assumed that it is proposed to matte an
carrange_ ment with some private firm,
Singapore, to whom
avat
outside
letters addressed to persons living in China Hong Kong shall be handed by the Post Office in bulk_ for dispatch, and through
whom
whom letters.
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other
coming from parts of China shall be handed to the Post Office of Stong Hong for distribution in song long.
Not long age
in connexion
with a proposal to institute a Postal Agency in America for the distribution of pareds the Postmaster General
advised that it was
legally advised
ho
part of his duties to Establish private agencies for the circulation of postal packets in foreignCombies An objection of a similar Kind abviously applies to the constitution by the Post Office agent of stong dong of any
for the despatch and circu- lation of letters throughout China.
a
By conferring a monopoly
fan Agent the Bost
Office
in