CO129-223 - Governor Sir Bowen Acting Governor Marsh & Others - 1885 [11-12] — Page 434

This reduction of postage,

coupled with certain alterations

in the Continental special transit

rates, was found, on the completion

of the necessary returns, to result in a considerable diminution

in the proportion of postage available for the sea service.

In the case.

case of letters, the chief

item in the returns, the sea rate was reduced from 20. 61. per single letter.

For the information of Colonel Hanley, I should state

that an explanation in theis

sense is believed to have been

furnished by this Department

in

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uclosed

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in the form of a memorandum attached to the corrected General

Account for December 1884, as prepared between this Depart-

ment and the

Post

Hong Kong to Office; but, as ellr Lister makeo

allusion to the memorandum,

it has probably been overlooked.

Jam to add that the

assessments resu

resulting in the

surcharge, unde

under previra are based upon the actual sex

postage accruing on the mails exchanged in the three years ended on the 31st of January

1883, and that all the calculations

have been carefully checked

and