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of a staff of.... Chinese only..., can be accommodated with
quarters on the Post Office premises, and it has been suggested
that a second kitchen adjacent to the first kitchen could be
changed into sleeping quarters, 'as one kitchen meets all the
cooking requirements.
I would now. advert te the nature of the
complaints made against the Post Office;
The larger portion of these come in the
train of a French Mail and deal with mis-sorting, late delivery
or irregular delivery. I do not believe that we have averaged
two complaints a week about mis-sorting; in the burry and scurry
of a french Mail.it is inevitable, considering the meagreness of
our premises and the jostling caused thereby, that such is that
they do not more frequently occur.
Complaints about late delivery and:irregu
lar delivery are also very few and usually occur when the are
rival of a heavy inward mail necessitates the employment of all
bands and causes ›d's work to overlap B's; on such occasion
either the regular deliveries must suffer or the preparation
of the mail must be retarded. Complaints come in about deli-
very of papers after letters; this irregularity is caused by
the papers being sorted in England into "forward" bags; and
as