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THE SECRE
D/Stamps 206
11/23/14
Gentlemen,
GENERAL POST OFFICE TO CROWN AGENTS.
General Post Office,
London,
15th March,1916
I am directed by the Postmaster General to inform
you that he wishes to make arrangements for the issue of
specially overprinted Hong Kong postage stamps for use by
the British Post Office Agencies in China,
A similar proposal was under consideration in 1911
and the Postmaster General was then informed that the
Secretary of State for the Colonies had authorised the
Crown Agents to supply to this office at cost price at ampa
identical with those printed for the Government of Hong
Kong, payment being made to the Crown Agents direct, and
not through the Colonial Government or Colonial Post Office
accounts. The proposal was not pursued at that time, but
the Post master General will be glad to learn that the
arrangements then contemplated will hold good now,
If that is so, the question of the number required
of stamps postcards and envelopes of the several denomin
nations will be considered, and a further communication
addressed to you in due course. The stamps would be over.
printed under proper safeguards in the Stamping Department
of the Board of Inland Revenue,
I am etc.
(Sgd.) W.G. Gates.
€ 18