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but waited until contain difficulties. had presented themselves in the establishount of a Postal Savings Bank at Singapore
evere disposed of. The m disappearance of these however left. moin difficulty untouched, viz : that the Post Office staff is already overworked, and without considerable and expensive
additionste it could not undertake the
ove
new duties. There are but two English officers, the Assistant Postincaster and myself, and it
impossible that could "sit at the receipt
either
ofers
of custom
was
"custom" as the practice is in-
similar Colonial Savings Banks, in
Qone
which even au
of which
officer from
another Departinent attards on
receiving days.
In 1882 however I had devised.
and submitted a makeshift plan by which the Savings Bank might be worked, without the presence of any superior Officer, in the Stamp Office, which adjoins the Post Office . It could have been open two days a week. only, from 11 to 3, a condition in itself unsuited to a Bank most of
whose constituents would be mates or
engineers of ships, who of course have
of course to come on shore when they can, not when they would. Moreover, though I believe the Bank could have been. worked in the Stamp Office in the way I proposed, the two Portiquese of whom
clerks and one Chivese clerk
the working staff consists have
3. In
their
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