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of $ 60. Are these payments made for premises rented by the Hong Kong Government or are the sums paid as allowances to the Post Office Agents (Consular Officials in these cases) for finding Post Office accommodation outside their Consular premises? In either case particulars are desired as to the conditions of tenancy.
At Tientsin there is an item for rent of $ 240. It is understood that the Agent is Clerk to a firm of Merchants and that the Post Office is situated on the premises of his employers. Particulars are desired of the terms of the tenancy.
(B) At Shanghai.
The Postmaster General has requested His Majesty's Office of Works to inform and advise him as to these buildings and the valuation thereof; and it is understood that that Office is now conducting the necessary investigation through its local representative in China.
7. Furniture at Arencies (Colonial Office letter of
3 March 1911 No. 342).
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The Postmaster General accepts in principle the purchase of the furniture and "other properties" value d on the statement prepared by the Postinster General of Hong Kong at 1824 in the case of Shanghai, and a total of
1561 at the ten other agencies, or 3185 in all. to ask for a statement showing approximately the character
quantity of the articles included. Was the valuation
made by the various Postal Agents, and, if so, were they
instructed