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the Colony under my nistration, to the adoption of a reduced rate of letter pos- tage vir P per 1⁄2 oz. between Kongkong and certain parts of the Empire, and request_
ing
me
measures
to take
ecessary
for introducing -postage ~ not only the new po rate from Christmas day- next, but also a fresh tri- ple scale of parcel postage for parcels exchanged bes "tween the Colony and the
United
United Kingdom.
2.
Were it not for the~
instructions contained in
the third paragraph of your
despatch under acknowledg
ment, I should have taken
longer time to consider the
proposals
effect on this Colony of the
which you
have
outat
directed me to carry
such short notice.
3.
I venture to suggest !
that the peculiar circums-
of this Colony
tances
were
not
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