CO129-286 - Acting Governor Major Gen Black Governor Sir Blake & Public Offices - 1898 [11-12] — Page 38

Executive Council that

5 cents should be taken

fixed as the portion interdeperial letter rate,

to

Be the equurstoda

as Reckoning the dollar at 2/-

5 cents at the presenterate of

Jalan

does not approximate so ready as to

Exchange represent it

Lid white 4 cents sport

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hich is a much

of aufmery, which toaves Equivalent. In therepre in an ethential part of the

eppeared to me to be desirable

Scheme

i

that the lattes sute Shordd

be adopted and I have

therefore

senformed decided that

This rate should also be

adopted by the Straits Settlements

Janay

Eu be this

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J. I have

no

desire at

Ge

the

present times to press the

adoption of the proposed scale

of parcel post rates between

Stagħhag

and the

United

affoetumnity of thing dow. And the matter statering that for

the purposes of

the new

I scale of faced

of bay

I which Postinge

in the fianco

Settlement

therefre Caw stand over

but

The Substances of this

despatch I communicated

50 Cents has been to you by telegraph on the

Taken as the Tähen

Equivalent

& it words

be convenienti

He

& adopt Samm equivalyt

Hong Kory whenwa

he

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the change may be made

inst

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