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A fourth clerk who should close all ordinary and re-

gistered mails, except by Contract packets.

A fifth Clerk who should take in and register letters

and parcels and deal with inward registered mails.

A sixth Clerk who should attend to Poste Restanter 800

requests Pluieber, clear drop box, dual with papers and books ree

ceived without covers.

All would ascist with sorting ther

Mplatared required and at liberty.Copying work would

be apportioned es convenient,

The salary of Senior Clerk should, I submit, rise from

$100 to at least $120 a month by increments: the se-

cond clerk should get atrast $80: the third, fourth, and

fifth clerks $50 each, atleast, and the Sixth $40.

This increase of staff is urgently needed, this office”,

. being at present the least efficient of the Post offices

in Shanghai and the far East.

E.Cornwall Lewis Esqre.

Acting Poste ster General.

kongkong.

I am etc.,

W. 7. (d), Solly,

Postmaster.