CO129-286 - Acting Governor Major Gen Black Governor Sir Blake & Public Offices - 1898 [11-12] — Page 25

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the Colony under my nistration, to the adoption of a reduced rate of letter pos- tage vir P per 1⁄2 oz. between Kongkong and certain parts of the Empire, and request_

ing

me

measures

to take

ecessary

for introducing -postage ~ not only the new po rate from Christmas day- next, but also a fresh tri- ple scale of parcel postage for parcels exchanged bes "tween the Colony and the

United

United Kingdom.

2.

Were it not for the~

instructions contained in

the third paragraph of your

despatch under acknowledg

ment, I should have taken

longer time to consider the

proposals

effect on this Colony of the

which you

have

outat

directed me to carry

such short notice.

3.

I venture to suggest !

that the peculiar circums-

of this Colony

tances

were

not

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