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of Postal business since that date has rendered that same policy

proportionately

more remuneratiine.

If then an expansion of business has brought profit to the Imperial and Colonial Coffers alike, and it has beeer found necessary in consequence of that expansion to increase the salaries of the Agents who in part manage

that business, it is not equitable that the Colonial Government should bear the increased financial burden alone, and that the other partner in the gains should abstain from

an increase of contribution on her part. Hence though it is true that no addition to the Imperial subsidy

is needed, it is equally true that an addition to the Imperial subsidy is called for by

the

equity of the case. These remarks will also refer to the paragraph in the letter from General Post Office

of 19th April 1890 beginning In "stating that," and ending, "considerabé amount of Revenues, and will show that the conclusions arrived at

in the 3rd paragraph of Lord. Knutsfordò despatch is untenable.

Concerning

(c).

the

sum

paid

out of the Imperial Contribution towards the Branch Post Office at

Shanghai, it is

wrong

to presume

that the amount would be covered

by

take the 1889 Esturiates,

the residue of the $4, 484 realived by the Imperial Contribution (vide C. P. O. Letter of 19th April 1890.) If we find that

£6,288 was to be spent on the salaries

the of same China Postal Officers as excired in 1869; aganist this is 10 be set off the R4484 @ 3/2 derivable from the Imperial subsidy.

There is

no residue. The remarks of the G.P.O.

if Shanghai

read as

to

did not come

within the sphere of the Imperial

of

subsidy