CO129-276 - Governor Sir Robinson - 1897 [6-8] — Page 122

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collected

by

the ducted.

Langdons

and is then divided into hoo categories :-

100) Les Postage.

Postage derived from Mails

· exchanged by the Colonies with the United Kingdom of which half is - allotted to the United Kingdon and half to the Colony concerned.

(b) Les Postage accruing from Intermediate Mails and from Mail conwayed on behalf of Foreign Countries,

which i shared in the same.

sance proportions

as the cost of the sections over which

The Mails

2

may

be carried.

The difference between 1 and gives the amount of the payment

to be made.

When the prevent contract was entered into, the following figures

were arrived at:-

1. £13,791

2. 1,071.

Sifference £ 12,700 of which we actually pay £6,000.

The

The

proposed basis appears

to differ from the present basis inn the following resheet :-

To 1 is added a

proportion Incidental Etperwes divided in

of. the same wo Service.

wary

as the cost of the

2. There seems to be no mention

Sev Postage

made of any

on Mails

coming under division (0),

The data supplied by the London Office in the table attached

to these

enable

I papers are not sufficient to me to make a comparison

of the amount that we should pay under the present and the proposed

the figure given

basis,

помід

and

taking the Contract at its present

figure, € 265,000.

1.

With these figures, I have

worked out a table which shows on

the present basis our share of the cost of service to be £15,264.25.

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