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until entain difficulties which had n
presented thereivelves in the establishment of
Bank
tre
disposed
a Pestert Savings at Singapore of. The disappearance of there haverr
one maiw.
& difficulty
untouched, viz:
that the Test Office Staff is already
left
overworked, and without considerable and expensive addition to it could not undertake the new duties. There are but two English officers, the Assistant ~~ Postmaster and myself, and it was impossible that either of us
could
sit at the receipt of custom, as the practice is in simitar Colonial Savings Banks, in
some
which even aw
of wh
Officer from
another Oepartinent attends on receiving days.
In 1888, however, I had devised
3.
and submitted a vui
makeshift plow by
Stamp Office, which adjoins the Post Office.
If could have bou
only, from 11to3,
two days open
a week
a condition in itsoff
a
united to a bank, most
of whom contituents
would be mates or engineers of ships, who
of
we have to come on
Chi trse
can, not when
they
shore
when
would. Moreover,
they's
though I believe the Bank could have been worked in the Staviup Office, in the
way
the live Portuguese Clerks I proposed, and one Chistose Clerk of whom
of whom the
working Stuff consick brave their hands
quite full enough
as it is.
They
the Post Office
overworked as are the
are not
Whenke,
brut their time is well filled up every day, and, as the business of the Colony increas,
will be suore, do-
which
St.
the Savings Bank might be worked, without
the pressure of any superior officer,
in the
Stemp
Thev
were the circumstances
under which the Hougkong and com Shanghai
i Bank came
forward
ard and
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