CONFIDENTIAL.
OFFICE
OF
WORKS
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13 DEC 1901
156
C. O.
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Ter
Pref 21 NOV 01
General Post Office,
Hongkong, 3rd October, 1901,
I respectfully beg to suggest that His Excellency the Governor will be pleased to take action by telegraph for the acquisition or renting of the land referred to in the enclosed letter from the Postmaster at Shanghai.
(Ad.) We
I have etc.,
J. B. Bastings,
Postmaster General.
The Honourable
J. S. Lockhart, C.M.G.,
Colonial Secretary.