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"Daily Press Office, Hong Kong,
7th January 1898.
The Librarian,
Royal Colonial Institute, London.
Dear Sir,
As requested in yours of 28th November, we sent you a copy of the Hong Kong Hansard, 1896-7, per German mail, left 5th inst. We may mention that a previous copy of that volume was sent by the mail of 2nd October, 1897 by bookpost. This seems to be one of the very numerous cases of miscarriage which have occurred during the last year or two in the case of articles sent through the post. The Post Office here has a much more than local importance, all the mail matter for China and most of that for Japan passing through this. The irregularities have become so many and glaring, that after the Press has been calling attention to them for some years, our Chamber of Commerce recently took up the matter, and I believe one of the first acts of our new Governor, Sir Henry Blake, was to communicate with the Colonial Office on the subject. It has been discovered that a systematic abstraction, and doubtless destruction, of correspondence has been perpetrated by the employees of the Post Office. Three men were recently
See "Daily Press" of 29th October.-- convicted of this offence, one which it is exceedingly unlikely would have occurred had there been proper supervision. I may mention that there is not, and has not for many years been, one official in our Post Office with a home training. Such abuses are seldom remedied until they have been made public, so if any of the members of your Institute who happens to be an M.P., or who may be connected with the home Press, would take the matter up, he would render a very great service, not only to this Colony, but to every European in China and Japan.
Yours faithfully,
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"Daily Press Office, Hong Kong,
7th January 189.
The Librarian,
Royal Colonial Institute,London.
Dear Sir,
As requested in yours of 28th November, we sent you a copy of the Hong Kong Hansard, 1896-7, per German mail, left 5th inst. We may mention that a previous copy of that volume was sent by the mail of 2nd October, 1897 by bookpost. This seems to be one of the very numerous cases of miscarriage which have occurred during the last year or two in the case of articles sent through the post. The Post Office here has a much more than local importance, all the mail matter for China and most of that for Japan passing through this. The irregularities have become so many and glaring, that after the Press has been calling attention to them for some years, our Chamber of Commerce recently took up the matter, and I believe one of the first acts of our new Governor, Sir Henry Blake, was to communicate with the Colonial Office on the subject. It has been discovered that a systematic abstraction, and doubtless destruction, of correspondence has been perpetrated by the employees of the Post Office. Three men were recently See "Daily Press" of 29th October.-- convicted of this offence, one which it is exceedingly unlikely would have occurred had there been proper supervision. I may mention that there is not, and has not for many years been, one Such abuses official in our Post Office with a home training.
are seldom remedied until they have been made public, so if any of the members of your Institute who happens to be an M.P., or who may be connected with the home Press, would take the matter
up,
he would render a very great service, not only to this
Colony, but to every European in China and Japan.
Yours faithfully,
(Sa)
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