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16. Each Administration undertakes to pay its ascertained share of such pensions and gratuities as may from time to time be payable in accordance with law to postal officers in respect of service in the postal department in such Administration.
17. Each Administration shall retain the ownership of all postal buildings, apparatus, and appliances situated within its territory and of all additional postal build- ings, apparatus, and appliances which may from time to time be so erected or installed at the expense of such Administration.
18. All purchases and repairs for or on behalf of any Administration shall be made through the Union Stores and Workshops, separate accounts being kept for each Administration provided that authority may be given by the Director-General for local purchases and repairs in any Administration.
19. Each Administration undertakes to entrust to the Director-General control over all international postal agreements and accounts, and authorizes him to enter into any such agreement on its behalf provided that all such agreements shall be submitted for the consideration and advice of the Board.
20. Subject to the provisions of paragraph 25 each Administration undertakes to accept such apportionments of revenue and expenditure between the various Adminis- trations concerned as may be determined by the Director-General.
21. Alterations in rates in respect of postal services rendered in Malaya shall be referred whenever practicable to the Board for consideration and advice.
22. Each Administration agrees to take steps to secure that the system of postal law and rules thereunder shall as far as reasonably possible be uniform throughout Malaya.
23. Nothing in this Agreement shall invalidate any conventions or agreements entered into by the Postal Department in any Administration prior to this Agreement. 24. Each Administration undertakes to make any changes in legislation which are necessary to give effect to this Agreement.
25. In the event of any dispute or difficulty arising in connexion with this Agree ment each Administration undertakes to accept the decision of the High Commissioner. 26. Any Malay State under British protection which may apply for membership of the Postal Union shall be admitted to membership thereof upon signing a form of adherence. From the date of the signing of such form or from such other date as may therein be specified the territory of such State shall be included within the postal area of Malaya, and the Administration of such State shall comply with all the under- takings in this Agreement contained to the same extent and in the same manner as the signatories hereto.
In witness whereof the parties hereto have signed the present Agreement and have affixed their public seals thereto.
Enclosure 2 in No. 48.
"B."
COPY OF PARAGRAPH 126 oF " BRIDGEMAN Report.'
The Post Office Advisory Council.
126. THE Advisory Council should act in a consultative capacity and should be consulted by the Postmaster-General on questions of general policy. It should serve as a connecting link between the Post Office and the public and, if effectively used, would, as representing the public as a whole, strengthen the hand of the Post Office in dealing with the claims of particular interests. Members of the Council should be entitled to raise items for discussion on the Agenda.
Enclosure 3 in No. 48.
MEMORANDUM BY THE SECRETARY FOR POSTAL AFFAIRS
THE Postmaster-General has drawn attention to the fact that the creation of a Postal Union will involve a certain loss to Malaya in respect of transit charges which could no longer be collected from other Administrations, and it is agreed that both the Straits Settlements and the Federated Malay States will incur losses under this head which were estimated to amount in 1930 in the case of the Straits Settlements to $20,000 and in that of the Federated Malay States to $9,000; owing to the abandon- ment of the Gold Standard in 1931 the figures for that year do not serve as a satisfactory basis of calculation.
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2. These losses will be a gain to other administrations, and will accrue for the most part to the British Post Office, India, Ceylon, and Australia. It is submitted that, as a postal matter, these profits should be abandoned in view of the advantages to be derived from union.
3. As stated in paragraph 2 accounting between the administrations of Malaya will continue to be necessary, but it is proposed to make payments on an out-of-pocket basis in future instead of settlements in accordance with the International Postal Convention.
4. The question of transit money orders is not one of importance, as the amounts involved in connexion with such orders are negligible; it is proposed to negotiate one agreement for Malaya in place of those now in force,
5. As regards parcel post no change in rates is contemplated, but a consolidated agreement will be necessary in the same manner as for money orders.
6. Action has been taken in making an addition to Article 6.
Kuala Lumpur,
22nd September, 1932,
13315/33 [No. 8].
J. ARTHUR,
Secretary for Postal Affairs,
Straits Settlements and Federated Malay States.
No. 49.
FEDERATED MALAY STATES.
STRAITS SETTLEMENTS.
THE SECRETARY OF STATE to THE HIGH COMMISSIONER.
(No. 186.)
Downing Street, 7th June, 1933.
SIB,
WITH reference to your despatch No. 794 of the 15th December, 1932,* I have the honour to confirm my telegram Federated Malay States No. 62 of the 18th April last conveying approval of the proposals for the reorganization of the postal services in Malaya.
2. With regard to the personnel employed in the reorganized services I assume that all staff other than the Director-General and other Officers of the Headquarters organization will be in the employment of a particular Administration which adheres to the Union, but it is not clear to me what will be the position of the Headquarters Staff. It would be desirable to make their position clear, and to define, for the purpose of the Pensions legislation of Dependencies outside Malaya, the nature of the public service in which the Headquarters Staff are employed. If it is decided that they hold appointments in the " Malayan Postal Union" (assuming that title is free from objection), steps might be taken to make the "Malayan Postal Union " equivalent to a scheduled Government by its inclusion in the Schedule of Colonial Pensions Regulations.
3. It may be however contemplated that all European personnel in the Posts and Telegraphs Services are to be borne on the proposed Malayan Establishment, and that it is this larger Establishment which should be scheduled.
4. Finally I may observe that Section 15 (11) of the draft Agreement requires that appointments and promotions in the Senior Staff shall be submitted to the High Commissioner. All such appointments and promotions should, as in the past, be submitted for my approval, in order that the question of transfers from other postal services to Malaya, and vice versa, may be considered.
I have, &c.,
P. CUNLIFFE-LISTER.
* No. 48.
+13318/33 [No. 7]: not printed.