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uneasiness upon any large increase of correspondence All this points to the pressing necessity of sanotioning the immediate construction of - enlarged and commodious
an
Post Office.
8.
To lower the rate-
from Hongkong would not ~ bear on the consolidation of.
the Empire,
an
object which
r
we all have so much at heart, as it would not in- crease the number of letters
from
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from HongKong itself because " the European merchants, the Civil servants and the
of the Army
officers and Navy do not
feel the present rate and would not therefore increase their correspondence if the rate of
· postage.
were reduced, while
the soldiers and sailors in Her
Majesty's service already have the privilege of posting at a still lower rate. The increase in the number of letters would be to rather than from Hong
Kong