method of appointing Postal Agents
in charge of Post- Offices at the Consular Ports
in China and that in a
recent case
of defalcation by the agent at Ningpo who was
Consular Constable at that
port, the Unofficial Members of Council expressed the o- pinion that steps should be taken to improve
improve the system.
On account of the in the
frequent changes
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Consular staff at each port
as well as
I am
for
other.
reasons.
of opinion that it
would not be practicable to
insist on
security being
furnished in each case and I "accordingly venture to recom- mend to "Your Lordship the propriety of urging the Foreign Office to issue instructions to it's officers
in China with a
view to securing (1) that no officer under the rank of a
Consular Assistant should
be