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Government House,
Hongkong, 17th. December, 1908.
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My Lord,
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of
With reference to paragraph 4 of
my confidential despatch of the 10th. of July, I have now
the honour to transmit the returns, for the period from
1st. of October 1907 to the 30th. September, 1908, asked
Spas
for by the Lord Commissioners of the Treasury in Mr. G. H.
Murray's letter of the 7th. of April last.
2.
These returns show that Amoy,
Canton and Swatow are the only postal agencies which are
at present run at a profit. The remaining agencies are
all run at a loss and Shanghai (the most wealthy of the
Treaty Ports) wherethe agency runs at a considerable loss,
even charges this Colony with rates and taxes in respect
of the Post Office building.
The returns further show that the
postal business exchanged between the agencies and Hongkong
is small and that the profit on it is negligible in com-
agencies
parison with the aggregate loss in the working of the THE EARL OF CREWE,
RIGHT HONOURABLE
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