CO129-269 - Governor Sir Robinson & Public Offices - 1895 [12] — Page 355

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On the 17th March, 1868 the Postmaster Cefer

announced that he had recently uhtained the authority

of the Treasury for placing the whole of the Post

Office Agencies in China and Japan under the immediate

and exclusive control of the Government of Hong Kong

Up to that time the Imperial and Colonial

Governments had shared, in a manner, the control

and expense of those Agencies: but such an arrange-

ment could only be considered as temporary, until

some better plan could be devised, as it was obvious

that the control could be more satisfactorily exer-

cised by the Colonial Government which was near at

hand, than by the Postmaster General in England.

The Government of Hong Kong, with the approval

of Her Majesty's Secretary of State for the Colonies

having consented to undertake the control of the

several Post Office Agencies, the Postmaster General

had transferred his authority to the Governor of

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Hong Kong, who would in future make all appointmente

and decide upon all local questions without reference

to the Post Office in London.

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