CO129-242 - Governor Des Voeus Acting Governor Stewart - 1889 [8-12] — Page 485

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correspondence, whether for boxholder or

others.

(d.) All Local Correspondence will be

delivered exactly present

our

ma

as addressed. Under

Reshift system the rule

is to ignore the address, and deliver at the nearest plase of business,

ther

method would be practicable. Thus

letter for family, addressed to his private house,

some member of a merchants

io not delivered there, but at his

a local letter

office. It has thus sometimes happened that the only result of posting has been to place it again, after -hours, in the hands of the writer.

come

(c.) A much better delivery to Chinese, viz; hourly East of the Canton Wharf,

Jam West of it. day bound to say that Chinese have inevitably regleted. Their correspondence

and thrice a

been much

with

places

and yet.

abroad is

6 greatly mencasing, we have not been able, for years past, to secure them more than

one

one de

delivery a day.

on

484

and even

busy days, and

the evening.

that perhaps not till late in the- wish I could feel that letters for Chinese have always been delivered within twenty ever complain, four hours. But they

whatever

goes wrong

Ja

(Jonly wish they

would ) and this national peculiarity

makes it impossible to prevent irregularities,

may.

(F.) It

be possible to establish an efficient Pillar Box system in. connection with the Local Delivery Scheme, and if it is it shall be done. this I have some But of the success

of

doubt. Pillar and wall boxes do not

our

seem adapted to the wants. Community . The experiments tried in this direction, as to which I hope to

submit some.

not, so far,

reo

o firges 200 hereafter, have been en

encouraging.

(g.) Lastly, the Post Office. without any

bc

open,

orin

on

would

extra strair-

already overworked staff,

indeed with some re

relief to them, for

the

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