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your opinion possible to "' dispense with sorting mails " on board mail packets between "Penang and Hong Kong if " reduction in subsidy could be " obtained. Repeat telegram to "Governor Hong Kong;
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to which I replied by telegraph on the instant as follows:-
" In reply to your telegram " confidential 5th January
my opinion cannot " dispense with sorting between • Singapore & Hong Kong.
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To dispense with the sorting of the English mails on board ship would result in a delay of about three hours in their delivery in Hongkong, which would cause very great inconvenience to the merchants of this Colony.
3. I understand from Messrs. Chater and Bell Irving, the unofficial Members of the Executive Council, that most of the China and Japan firms have their head office in this Colony; that the greater part of the business letters
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your opinion possible to
"' dispouse with sorting mails
" on board mail packets between "Penang and Hong Kong if
" reduction in. subsidy could be " obtained. Repeat telegram to "Governor Hong Kong;i
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to which I replied by telegraph on
the ofthe instant as follows:-
" In reply to your telegram
"
confidential 5th January
my opinion cannot " disperse with corting between
• Singapore Stong Kong.
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2.
To
dispense
with the sort-
ing of the English mails on board ship would result in a
delay of about three hours in their delivery
in Hongkong, which would cause inconvenience to thema.
very great chant of this Colony.
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I understand from Meurs.
Chater and Bell Irving, the the-
official Members of the Executive
Council, that most of the China
and Japan firms have their stead
office in this Colony; that the greater part of the business letters
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2.
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