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recent practice of sending "all the correspondence for China and Japan in the mail for Hongkong would be neither convenient nor economical. If the Post Master General should coincide in this
view,
the
only point which remains to be decided is whether the
Expense of
these Postal
is to be borne by the Colonial
Agencies or the Imperial
Government. Upon this
subject I can
only repeat
what I stated in my
Despatch No. 64
of
the 5th May,
that the amount allowed
on
agency letters the expenditure
incurred by these letters upon the central Office in Hongkong alone, leaving the expenditure at the agencies altogether unprovided for. And I entirely concur in the
opinion expressed by Lord Elgin, the late Post Master General, in his Despatch of the 26th January last that "it would
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recent practice of sending "all the correspondence for chine and Japan in the mail for Houghing would be neither convenient nor cconomical. If the Post Master General shoulde coincide in this
view,
the
only point which remains to be decided is whether the
Sixpense of
these Postul
is to be bane by the Colonial
Agencies the Imperial
Government. Upon this
· subject I can
only repeat
what I stated in my
Juratel & 64
of
356
the 5th May,
that the amount allowed
of
on
agency letter the expenditure
to this Colony falls short intailed by these letters upon the central Office in Houghing alone, leaving the expenditure at the agencies altogether unprovided you. And d entirely concur in the
Lord Majn to
Opinion expressed by Lord Elgin, the host of the Juany the late Post Master Several
26th January 1960.
haborum in in his Despatch of the 26th
Secretary of Stater
Suntil JFISA January last that "it would
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