No. 47.
The Honourable
Sir,
No.2.
C
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General Post Office
Hongkong, 3rd June, 1904.
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I have the honour to submit for consideration the following increases to the Establishment of the General Post Office and to ask for authority to include them in the Annual Estimates.
Registration Branch:- 1 Chinese Clerk @ $660 - $840 urgently required to look after the delivery of Registered letters addressed to Chinese. At present the postmen who deliver these are under the No. 1 Postman who is quite unable to deal with them, although honest and willing. He cannot count above fifty and has his letters doled out in bundles of that number. This system of dealing with letters by numbers instead of by addresses is bad and should be abolished.
General Branch:- Four Clerks - 2 @ $960 - $1,080 by $60 biennially, 2 @ $660 - $840 do. Two to supervise the coolies at the stamping counter and drop-boxes and to assist in sorting. Two for general duty work.
General Delivery:- 2 Postmen at $132 - $144 to meet the increasing pressure on the town branches owing to new 5-storey blocks, and increase of population in Caine Road.
Shroff and Stamp-vendor at $240 to relieve alternately the present staff of four who are on duty all day and who cannot be dispensed with.
I have etc.,
(Sd.) L. A. M. Johnston,
Postmaster-General.
The Colonial Secretary.
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