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Hong Kong C. o. Minute, papers 21, 248 an
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I have again gone carefully into the supposed deficit
and regret that and surplus of Postage and Revenue Stamps the details now to hand unter cover of the Governor's Despatch No. 238 of 15th August 1918, do not enable me to explain the difference.
The stock is only given for the 1 stamps and the serial figures prove that the sheets have not been issued in
If various prints of stumps are counted Yotation of wiberH.
a record being kept upon receipt and issued in correct aequence, of the numbers of the sheets given out on each occasion, it seems'
If however, practically impossible for differences to occur. sheets are issued hap-hazard, without regard to sequence of
becomes difficult and liable to numbers, correct stock- taking confusion.
Personally, I am of opinion, with regard to the 1 stampa, that the half sheets and whole sheets have been con- fused, and that, while the serial number record points to a deficit, the actual stock of full sheets is possibly correct.
half sheets In other words, if in the event of 10 being received, each of course bearing a separate number, these were recorded as whole sheets, the supposed deficit would be at once explained.
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(gd) H. J. Robinson
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