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of a staff of.... Chinese only..., can be accommodated with

quarters on the Post Office premises, and it has been suggested

that a second kitchen adjacent to the first kitchen could be

changed into sleeping quarters, 'as one kitchen meets all the

cooking requirements.

I would now. advert te the nature of the

complaints made against the Post Office;

The larger portion of these come in the

train of a French Mail and deal with mis-sorting, late delivery

or irregular delivery. I do not believe that we have averaged

two complaints a week about mis-sorting; in the burry and scurry

of a french Mail.it is inevitable, considering the meagreness of

our premises and the jostling caused thereby, that such is that

they do not more frequently occur.

Complaints about late delivery and:irregu

lar delivery are also very few and usually occur when the are

rival of a heavy inward mail necessitates the employment of all

bands and causes ›d's work to overlap B's; on such occasion

either the regular deliveries must suffer or the preparation

of the mail must be retarded. Complaints come in about deli-

very of papers after letters; this irregularity is caused by

the papers being sorted in England into "forward" bags; and

as