No.
67.
Hongkong.
My Lord,
C. O.
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RECE
(Red! 19 APR 06
Government House,
Hongkong, 20th. March, 1906.
I have the honour to request Your
Lordship's covering sanction for expenditure at the rate of
$3,340 per annum which I have authorised for establishing
and working a Branch Post Office in order to facilitate
the handling of Chinese Correspondence between this Colony
and Canton.
2.
Up to the present an arrangement
for this correspondence known as the "hong system" has
prevailed. A "hong" is a private Post Office acting in
conjunction with an agency in another town. In Hongkong it
collects and delivers letters under licences issued under
Notifications Nos. 273 and 274 published in the Government
Gazette of 1902. Such letters are made up in packets addres-
-sed to the corresponding agency and the packets are taken
to the General Post Office and prepaid at the rate of
"
RIGHT HONOURABLE
THE EARL OF ELGIN, K.G•,
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