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Your Reference 53744/37
RECEIVED
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POSTAL SERVICES DEPARTMENT,
GENERAL POST OFFICE,
LONDON, E.C.1.
28 September, 1937.
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P.O. Reference 19721/37
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Sir,
29 SEP 1937
C. O. REGY
With reference to your letter of the 24th of September,
enclosing a copy of a telegram from the Governor of Hong Kong
proposing certain increases in the rates of postage in Hong Kong
as from the 12th of October, I am directed by the Postmaster
General to say, for the information of the Secretary of State for
the Colonies, that he has no observations to offer regarding
the proposed rates. I am, however, to say that in accordance
with the provisions of Article 105, § 1, of the Detailed
Regulations of the Cairo Convention, any alterations of the
equivalents of the international postage rates laid down by the
Postal Union Convention can only enter into force on the first
day of a month and at the soonest fifteen days after their
notification by the International Bureau of the Universal Postal
TIONAL
SCHEME
DISABLED
Union.
The Under Secretary of State,
COLONIAL OFFICE.
In
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