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MORLEY.
APPENDIX
C.
7.834
7.884
11,749
11,748
23,011
17,610
18,876
11,939
14,203
Certain
Places in
India.
Ceylon.
Straits
Settlements.
Hong Kong.
Not.
respect of which
by the United Kingdom. United Kingdom. the Cost is borne
Per-Amount centage.
centage.
Per. Amount centage.
Per. Amount centage.
Per-
Amount.
Amount.
Amount.
centage.
centage.
EASTERN MAIL SERVICE.
DIVISION of COST in accordance with the principles embodied in the AWARD of LORD MOBLEY.
Cost of Sections.
Amount payable by
Section of the Service.
Section. Length
H
No. of
Voyages
Annum,
Annual
Gross.
Lem Sca
Postage
Sections credited
under
Clease B.
of Award.
616
88.%
24-6
53-02 124,811 |
6,633
3.23
7,611
5.58
13,131
62-59 | 147,849 |
500
gog
13
22,538
£12,893
0. A. KING.
Comptroller and Accountant-General.
25.78
2.82
3.29
213
62.59
25.78
3.82
8.23
721 18,844
2,382
149,781
62.59
8,087
13,129
230
$141,644
Brindisi and (Subsection A. Tort Said, ) Subsection B. Port Said I Subsection A. and Aden.) Subsection B. Aden and Bombay ...
Aden and Colombo...
...
Singapore and Hong Kong... Colombo and Singapore
Hong Kong and Shanghai...
Miles.
Total Annual Milenge...
No.
Miles.
086
48,860
48,360
1,395 Į
YOU
72,540
1,396 |
72,540
15,663
15,648
3,497
23,406
1.664
123.066
66,074
2.099
5 108 $36.
35,262
임명
1,678
OFF
52
86,996
74.880
44,856
28,191
439
24,265
14,879
98%
腐
17+
729,924
Cost of Sections
236,500
1,088
235,417
25.78
60,693
Cost of Sen Sorting ...
Subsidy to P. & O. Co.
245,000 8,500
7,300
Add :—Share of Incidental Expenses (£8,806) ...
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GROSS AMOUNT payable
:
Deduct :-Share of Extra Receipts (£12,921) for Sea Postage on Foreign Closed Mails
NET AMOUNT payable
.w.
i i
Pooling AccoUNT:—Allow one-half of excess collected in the United Kingdom ...
TVASsy
Ansual ConTRIBUTION ...
General Post Office,
30th June, 1903.
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APPENDIX D.
EASTERN MAIL SERVICE.
DIVISION OF SEA-POSTAGE ON PARCELS.
By agreement with India, Parcel maile 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 parcels 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.., 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 ses 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.
C. A. KING.
General Post Office,
10th May, 1904.
APPENDIX E.
COST OF BRINDISI-ADELAIDE SERVICE.
Per cent.
Brindisi and Port Said
(Subsection B)
་་་
7,680,329
3,530,000 11,216,329
31
£ 5,008
Per cent.
69
Port Said and Aden..
(Subsection B.)
Aden and Colombo...
Colombo and Adelaide
...
7,432,806 9,530,000
10,963,806
32
7,782
68
க
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1,974,278 3,580,000 5,804,278
3,580,000 3,530,000
23,250
36
100
77,803
-
Total
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113,813
1
NOTE. The figures in the third column are arrived at in the following manner :---
In the Annual Report of the Fostmaster-General for the year 1894-6 (p. 49 of C. 7852) the total number of letters and postcards to and from Australasia is given na 5,506,900. In recent reports the estimated weight instead of the number of moh letters is given, and it supears that the weight of Australasian letters rose from 182 510 lbs, in 1896 to 294,000 lbs. in 1901, or an increase of over 28:9 per ount. 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 7,080,000. Assuming that one-half of these letters are carried by the Orient mail thore rem: ins 3,530,000 as the number carried by the P, & 0. mail.