tendering to His Majesty any advice as
to this Ordinance.
I have, etc
(Signed) L. S. AMERY,
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0.15799/28. 102858/26
unications should be addressed to
THE SECRETARY
General Post Office,
•13799.
sir,
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GENERAL POST OFFICE,
LONDON, E.Ç. 1.
.194756 october, 1926.
OCT 1776
With reference to your letter of the 31st of August
laet, transmitting a copy of an Ordinance passed by the
Legislature of Hong Kong to amend the law relating to
the Post Office, I am directed by the Postmaster General
to acquaint you, for the information of the Secretary of
State for the Colonies, that under the provisions of
Article 34 8 3 of the Postal Union Convention of
Stockholm letters may not, in the international service,
contain any letter, note or document addressed to s
person other than the addresses or a person living with
him.
As both Hong Kong and China are parties to the
Convention in question, it is presumed that the
arrangements regarding "clubbed paskets" exchanged with
China are the subject of mutual agreement with the
Chinese Post Office.
The Postmaster General has no other observatione
Or Secretary of State,
ONIAL OFFICE.
to
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