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Past Master General to your favourable

consideration.

I have the honor to be,

Sir

Your Most Obedient Stumble Servant. March

Administrator

Confidential

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Report on proposed abolition of Southampton Mail 40.

no

The Southampton Mail is of practical service to the public in Hongkong

China or

Japan.

It's abolition, without!

necessarily, involving hardship to anyone. would be very desirable, greatly simplifying the sorting of the Homeward English mail" (the heaviest mail made up by this office) and setting one officer wholly, others partly

free, to attend to

The

only

more.

important duties.

real uses

Mail at present

of the Southampton

are the return of empt.

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