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Peninsular and Oriental Steam Navigation Co.,
Hongkong, 11th January, 1918.
S. B. C. Ross, Esq.,
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Postmaster General, Hongkong.
27175
IREC
REG 4 JUN 18
Dear Sir,
MAILS & PARCEL POST.
With reference to my representative's call upon you
in August last, my Directors informed me under date 19th June that the Company's Contract obligation with the Post Office was reduced to e Mail Service between the United Kingdom and Bombay and that for any service outside this meil obligation the Post Offices making use of the Company'e ships will pay the Company es non-contract carriers under the terms of the Postal Union
Convention.
My Directors now write under date 22nd October last that it is quite wrong in assuming that payment for the Service which the Company performs on the China Line will be made to them through the London Post Office and have requested that proper payment is made at this end from all Post Offices making use of the service.
They further advise the rate which is allowed under the Postal Union Convention is quite inadequate for the service to be performed as it only works out at about 29/- per ton of 40 cubic feet and therefore the Company's Agents are instructed to charge the rate of freight which is current.
My Directore add that as the Company's ships are under requisition and are being worked for the benefit of the Ministry of Shipping, it is only right that space should be taken up in the ships at this rate.
The current rates hence from the 1st July last are as
follows:-
Hongkong