CO129-165 - Sir Kennedy - 1873 [10-12] — Page 361

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various Emapean Powers, have the honor to report:- 1. Although the question

yot

is

Sentially

one

for the consideration

Office, has

of the Imperial bout offin,

this

Government

aw

interest in the matter insemuch

it created a

Yostahama

avven

by

the

on

building at

a

plot of land

Japanese Government for Post Office purposes at a cost of about ten Thousand Dollar's, and it maintanas Ian establishment there to which

the Imperial Post Office contributes

£ 500, a

and the Colony further

year, expends thereon a

لسنه

of about Three thousand dollars

0.0

the mails

annually, whilst are almost all carried by bontrast Packets it reapro

little or

Mo

revenue, and

certainly leaves The Colony.-

god If

such

Ws

profit to

but

a convention

-should be entered into by British Government, the

the

advisability of which I venture to doubt, it should be stipulatid that the stong stong Government should be repaid the cost or present value of the Post Office building and fittings.

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