CO129-247 - Acting Governor Fleming Governor Des Voeus - 1890 [10-12] — Page 126

"

Postal Agencies at the Ports of China.

under its control.

Turning

now to the

questions raised ui the correspondence

between Downing

Street and St. Martins

le Grand, the following remarks

may

be pertinent.

(a). the statement in the G. P. 0.

¢

January 1890 that the

letter of 30th Jan

out of Songkong instead

Government of stongko

of applying the full In perial

subsidy towards the support of the Igencies,

makes a profit of over a

Korward dollars a year

year under the ent is refuted by

arrangement"

present ar the figures in paragraph 4 supra.

the same letter it is

A

(b) agani

written

an examination

of

the

" question, however, shows that no

" addition to the Imperial andsidy

" is needed to place the Government

4

" of Hongkong ui

G

position to fix the

" salaries of the respective agents at

the

"the rates proposed "

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It was shown ein

paragraph I that the original subsidy

in 1869 nearly equalled the amount of salaries paid to Postal Agents including half the salary of the Shanghai Agent. Frour this it is

a fair inference that it was the original mitention of the Imperia Government to pay the salaries of

Agents;

these

1; moreover it is not to

A was

be supposed . that this grant made out of the Imperial Treasury

solely to benefit the Colonial ~ Government, had there been no advantage accruing to the United Kungdom from the course then. adopted, the subsidy would not have been paid. If then it is reasonable to assume that the Imperial – Government in 1869 benefited by the Policy pursued, it is also reasonable large expansion

adsan LE

that the

of