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small differences, to maintaine a system of

accountó esecutially troublesome to both offices.

Ifevetter sugge

tid that the

euggested

Colony

woulder

-probably not object to pay £3800 a your

werely

in

discharge of all slanus, and added that my proposals must be regarded kukative, as of course the consent of the

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a o

Colonial Government would have to be obtained.

I have now received a reply from the London As / Office, in which it is aduitted that

simplificcation of the cxcomiul in question might be effected with mutual advantage but the Secretary points out, what is doubtles correct, that the more payout of a lump

quum a

agement not

conmeatly is an arrangement

easily open

should form

to revision as the accounts which

a basis for such a revision

would be abolished.

&

•M. Blackwood suggests that the exchange of mails between (ondon and Hongkong should be placed strictly on the basis of Postal Union arrangements, each Office kaping all the Postage it collects, and paying all the teritoriad and maritime transit charges to which it is liable. This is a proposal. I should have vince had I thought there chance of it being accepted. Its

reade

long

was any

result would be that our relations with

London would be precisely the sance as

Italy, except that we should be paying £6000 a year towards the Imperial loss on the P.40. subsidy,

I have

our relations with muce or

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• gone carefully into the monetary aspect of the question wed I find that the result, as far as it can be predicted, will be a slight saving to the Colony

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