MORLEY.
APPENDIX C.
EASTERN MAIL SERVICE.
DIVISION of COST in accordance with the principles embodied in the AWARD of LORD MORLEY.
Cost of Beations.
Amount payable by
13
O. A. KING,
Comptroller and Accountant-General.
£12,898
Section of the Service.
Length
Scolion,
Voyages No. of
per
Annum,
Annual
Milenge.
Gross.
Les Sen
Postage
credited to
Sections
under
Clause B.
India.
Ceylon.
Straits
Settlements.
Hong Kong.
of Award.
Miles.
No.
Miles.
7
Brindisi and (Subsection A. I'ort Said Subsection B. Port Said 1 Subsection A. and Aden. | Subsection B. Adan and Bombay ... Colombo and Singapore Aden and Colombo... Singapore and Hong Kong... Hong Kong and Shanghai...
---
026
086
52
48,860
15,668
52
48,360
15,668
1,395❘
***
1,664
3,093
***
...
1,673
ZO
24
1.9
zu
72,540
23,497
72,540
73.056 |
108.838
23,196
56,074
35,262
248
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-
86,996
28,191
453
1,440
52
74,880 |
24,265
986
833
998*++
14,879
174
23.879
14,203
Total Annual Mileage ...
729,924
Cost of Sections
236,500
1,089
235,417
25-78
60,698
2.82
6,633
8.23
Not.
Per.
centage.
Amount centage.
Per-
Par-
Per-
Amount centage. Amount. centage.
Amount centage.
Per Amount. Amount
Por
centage.
7,854
15,668
7,105
13,648
6,672
23,497
11,417
28,496
8,488
56,022
28,011
35,230
403
7,834
11,749
11.748
23011
17,615
13,876
ZOLLZ
11,939
14,205
58.02
124,811
AY.B
22,588
92-9
13,131
69.69
147,349
Certain
Places in
respect of which
by the United Kingdom. United Kingdom. the Cost is borne
7,611
Cost of Sea Sorting ...
Subsidy to P. & O. Co.
8,500
245,000
009*2
500
500
Add:-Share of Incidental Expenses (£3,806) ...
26.78
981
38.8.
Closed Mails. on Foreign Deduct:-Share of Extra Receipts (£12,921) for Sea AMOUNT payable
:
Postage on
25.78
107
6,740
9-82
365
NET AMOUNT payable POOLING ACCOUNT:-Allow one-half of excess collected in the United Kingdom.
213
13,844
721
62.59
62-59
2,382
149,791
8,087
19,129
141,644
230
General Post Office,
30th June, 1903.
ANNUAL CONTRIBUTION ...
£59,930
PUBLIC RECORD OFFICE
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APPENDIX D.
EASTERN MAIL SERVICE.
DIVISION OF SEA-POSTAGE ON PARCELS.
By.agreement with India, Parcel mails conveyed by P. & O. services were not intro- duced into the assessment of cost based on Lord Morley's Award, but were the subject of a separate settlement in the monthly accounts.
As between the United Kingdom and India the sea-postage on parcels (ie., the proportion of the postage collections assigned to the sea service) is allotted on the following lines in harmony with the general tenour of the Award :—
(1) On parcele exchanged between India on the one hand and the United Kingdom, the Continent of Europe or Egypt on the other, the sea-postage is divided equally.
(2) On parcels despatched by India eastward (i.s., over sections of the Service for which India is not assessed as regards letter mails) the whole sea-postage is accounted for by India.
(3) On purely foreign parcels (e.g., those exchanged between Italy and Egypt) the sea-postage is regarded as an extra receipt of which India receives the same proportion (25-78 per cent.) as of the extra receipts which are dealt with in the assessment.
If the Eastern Colonies accept the application of the principles of the Morley Award to the division of the cost of the Service, it is proposed to make with them a similar arrangement as regards the Parcel sea postage corresponding to that falling under divisions (1) and (3). The parallel is not precisely applicable to division (2), but the amount involved is very small, and there would be no difficulty in coming to an agreement.
General Post Office,
C. A. KING.
10th May, 1904.
APPENDIX E.
COST OF BRINDISI-ADELAIDE SERVICE.
Per cent.
*
Brindisi and Port Bald
(Subsection B)
... | 7,686,929
3,580,000 11,216,329
91
5,008
Per cent.
69
Port Said and Aden..
(Subsection B.)
4+1
7,432,806
3,530,000 10,962,806
92
36
7,758
68
Aden and Colombo...
Colombo and Adelaide
1,974,278 3,530,000 5,504,278
3,530,000 3,530,000
64
23,250
38
100
77,803
Total
H
113,813
NOTE. The figures in the third column are arrived at in the following manner :-
In the Annual Report of the Postmaster-General for the year 1894-5 (p. 49 of C. 7852) the total number of letters and postcards to and from Australasin in given na 5,506,900. In recent reports the estimated weight instead of the number of such letters is given, and it appears that the weight of Australasian letters rose from 182 510 lbs. 1896 to 234,000 lbs. in 1901, or an increase of over 282 per cent. It may fairly be assumed that the number of letters approximately increased by the same percentage, which would make the Australasian letters for 1901 about 7,060,000. Assuming that one-half of these letters are carried by the Orient mail there rem: ins 3,330,000 na the number carried by the P. & O. mail.