CO129-082 - Sir Robinson - 1861 [8-12] — Page 187

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pro

-ceed in the last paragraph to

Announce

the System of Control and arrangement sender

which then wonen wish the

Agency

to be

placed.

But with

every

desire to Consult

the wishes of the Shanghse Ammunity in

the matter, there

are other considerations

which this Government

long.

in mind, so

are bound to bear

as the Shanghae Post

office entinues a mere

branch

of

a

Colonial Establishment - so long as this Government is responsible for the total - Revenue of the Branch - both Imperial

as well as Colonial- and so

expense of the Branch,

long as the

over and above the

revenue derived from it and the contribution of t 160 from the Home Government, hes be be supplied from the Revenue of the

Colony.

The receipts from the Shanghai Corresponsona

and the

an insufficient to cover the fair share of the Cost of the contral, office in Hong Kong expenses of the branch at Shanghae - It becomes the duty of this Government

to exercise the strictest economy in

therefore

the management of the shanghai Post Office

But it occurred to Sir Hercules Robinson

that as the Shanghae Community were relieved from

all those portages

Com

on the

reepondence between Hongthong and

to which this Community are-

Shanghae

liable and which women also fall

if their Post office

on them

were made an

independent

Offia, they might be desirous to co-operate with this Government and by contributing