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7. The Imperial Government pays the Colony £100
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a year for the travelling expenses of the Postmaster General to inspect the Agencies. These inspections have
not hitherto been very regularly made, in consequence the
Government was requested to allow the Local Auditor to
go round this year to examine all the accounts and
further to report specially what additions
if any
were necessary to the staff at the Shanghai Post Office.
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!
8. Postal business has, and is largely increasing at Shanghai (as throughout China generally) Foreign
Post Offices with not one tenth of the work of the
British Office maintain staffs numerically equal and
infinitely better paid than that of the Offices under
the Hong Kong Government.
stant
Complaints have for years past been contest
in the local prints as to the inadequacy both of staff
and accommodation in the British Post Office at Shanghai and the Postmaster (now retiring) has repeatedly reported
in the same sense.
9 The Postal Agents at the Coast Ports continuous -
ly pray for larger and better paid staffs. In one case an
Agent
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