CO129-218 - Administrator Marsh Governor Sir Bowen & Others - 1884 [11-12] — Page 227

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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

ofline

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