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complications of accounts that (I think I
two thirds of the whole time,
may say?
skill, and labour expended in a Post
Office
were devoted to keeping, preparing, chucking accounts, and the other third,
to what had come to be quite a subsidiary matter, the forwarding of correspondent:
3.
In 1874%f this
Colony entered d the Postal .
Union, and
much of this network.
of
swept away.
But, though
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then
practically
bolished
As
retrace
4.
Earty
in this
your any
attraction was
had
called to the fact that the Singapore Post Office
Querected in obtaining
the abolitiwa
accounts, and was to pay, instead, a commuted
KUUVANHUNG
ally
I at once wrote to the London
Office could not be made to Hongkong. Spointed
and asked who then this same concesion.
out that the summo
s paid to that
office by
on the accounts in question had been
in 1881
£3860-12-9
acconută was
accccends
feer
very
av all other countrue are concerned, we
still retained them in our relations with
the Hirited Kingdom. The time
The time of one
of one officer
in this Cxparti
timent is mainly taken up in
preparing
the
ionthly accounts for London,
and there is besides a great cheal of copying
10 connected with them.
or on
the
1882.
1883
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3754.12.2
3829-17-10
3709" 4.10
average ₤3796-12·0 annually. · pointed out that the difference between the smallest and the largest of there sums is only
aud.
about £*150, cuet suggested the question whether it is worth while, for the sake c of such
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