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GENERAL POST OFFICE, LONDON.

13 June 1900.

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13299

Sir,

Referring to my letter of the 19th of January last and

your reply of the 23rd of May, No. 13299, I am directed by

the Postmaster General to acquaint you, for the information

of the Secretary of State for the Colonies, that, as

requested, he represented to the Peninsular and Oriental

Steam Navigation Company the wishes of the Hong Kong Govem-

ment with regard to the employment of additional officers

for the purpose of sorting correspondence on board the

Company's outward bound Packets between Singapore and Hong

Kong.

In their reply the Directors point out that in a

letter dated the 7th of July 1896 they had announced that

if the number of sorters on board their Mail Packets were

increased they would require to be paid for the additional

officers half the usual passage rates, but they are in this

instance willing to waive the question of payment and to

The Under Secretary of State,

convey

COLONIAL OFFICE.