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6. The special attention of the Post Office Accountant was not called to the change of circumstances, and in making out the transit charges accounts for 1895 and 1896 he credited the Peninsular and Oriental Company with having carried mails from Colombo to Bombay, taking as a basis the statistics of mails sent to Tuticorin.
7. The result was that sums amounting to $2022.85 were paid to the Peninsular and Oriental Company for services not performed.
8. The error was not discovered till the accounts were received from India asking for payment of the transit charges for conveyance of the mails by British India packets.
9. It thus appears that for the two years in question Hong Kong has paid twice for the conveyance of mails between Colombo and India, once to the Peninsular and Oriental Company and once to the Indian Administration.
10. A request was made to the Peninsular and Oriental Company to refund the amounts paid to them, but they contended that they had correctly received the payments in question.
11. They offered, as a compromise, to refund the sum of $1060.80 paid to them for transit of mails to Japan in 1897, and after a long correspondence the compromise has been accepted.
12. The sum of $1060.80 will therefore appear in the accounts under the heading of Miscellaneous Receipts.
I have &c.;
(Signed) Hilgrove C. Nicolle
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6. The special attention of the Post Office Account-
ant was not called to the change of circumstances, and in making out the transit charges accounts for 1895 and 1896 he credited the Peninsular and Oriental Company with having
carried mails from Colombo to Bombay, taking as a basis the
statistics of mails sent to Tuticorin.
7. The result was that sums amounting to $2022.85
were paid to the Peninsular and Oriental Company for
services not performed.
8.
The error was not discovered till the accounts
were received from India asking for payment of the transit
charges for conveyance of the mails by British India packets
9. It thus appears that for the two years in question
Hong Kong has paid twice for the conveyance of mails between Colombo and India, once to the Peninsular and Oriental
Company and once to the Indian Administration.
10.
A request was made to the Peninsular and Oriental
Company to refund the amounts paid to them, but they contended that they had correctly received the payments in
question.
11.
They offered, as a compromise, to refund the sum of $1060-80 paid to them for transit of mails to Japan in 1897, and after a long correspondence the compromise has
been accepted.
12.
The sum of $1060.80 will therefore appear in the accounts under the heading of Miscellaneous Receipts.
I have &c.;
(Signed) Hilgrove C.Nicolle
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