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Braf 22 NOV 10
TREASURY CHAMBERS.
15 November 1910.
Sir,
With reference to the statement in the letter from this
Department of the 20th ultimo (17724/10), that from 1st
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January 1911 "the Wei-hai-Wei Agency should
pass into
the control of the Imperial Post Office" and to your Report
of the 7th instant (424904/10), I am directed by the Lords
Commissioners of His Majesty's Treasury to say that They have
no objection to this control being exercised temporarily through the Postmaster General of Hong Kong, acting as your
Agent, and that They accordingly concur in the request which
you propose to address to the Colonial Office on the subject.
I am,
Sir,
Your obedient Servant,
(Sd).. T. L. Reath.
Postmaster General.