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Table VII.
Amounts payable yearly by and to Hongkong for the years 1908 to 1913 inclusive for the transit of mails based on the statistics taken during the first twenty-eight days of November, 1907, in accordance with the provisions of the Convention of Rome.
Country in correspondence with Hongkong. Amount payable by Hongkong. Amount payable to Hongkong. Austria, Francs, cts. 2,298.55 Francs. cts. 1,854.22 Belgium, British India, 1,538.42 Canada, 9,761.05 Egypt, 1,181.62 Federated Malay States, 4,060.88 France, 98,222.72 French Indo-China, 9,294.37 Germany, 113,544.38 Holland, 5,960.05 Italy, 17,845.99 Japan. 23,727.60 Macao, 1,897.42 Nether-lands India, 3,106.35 Philippine Islands, 5,686.96 Straits Settlements, 15,069.25 Switzerland, 2,244.76 United Kingdom, 12,771.56* United States of America, 14,075.34 Frs. 54,728.99 Frs. 289,407.50 Totals, Frs. 289,407.50* These figures are exclusive of the sea-conveyance of mails by P. & O. packets which is included in the amount £11,273 payable by this Colony as its share of the mail subsidy.
Table VIII.
Amounts payable yearly by Hongkong, for the period 1st October, 1907, to 31st December, 1909, inclusive, for mails sent from the British Post Offices in North China by the trans-Siberian Railway, based on the statistics taken during the first twenty-eight days of May, 1908.
Country in correspondence with Hongkong. Amount. China, Francs. cts. 1,053.67 Japan, 1,795.61 Russia, 92,568.50 Total, Frs. 95,417.78Page 11