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of vision which is undesirable on a mail day, particularly French, when an Inward and Cutward Mail invariably claah on every other arrival.
Moreover, structural alterations in the wall of the Money Order OKfice will weaken the building where heavy stamping presses and safes of the Treasury are overhead and require substantial supports.
I may also add that in Summer it will not be conducive to health to have the present Money Order Office choked up with Indians where more ventilation would be afforded in the open at the annexe.
The duties in my Department are more onerous than that at the Registration Branch where a Deputy Superintendent is allowed and I therefore beg to request that an Indian Branch of my Department may be established by transferring from the General Office Mr. S. Moosa, who has some knowledge of the Money Order work, and is now helping me almost daily, as Deputy Superintendent of the Money Order Office, to be in sole charge of the Indian Money Orders and thus entirely relieva me of the counter work which is now absorbing the whole of my time. This will then allow me more leisure to devote to my books and accounts which are in arrears, notwithstanding working on Sundays and holidays.
I had only Christmas day of the wholə holidays this season and, as you are aware, I am always daily in Office from 9 A.M.. and often before that, to 8 P.M.. when I can no longer stay, as the Office has to be closed, and had then to take home work to complete.
Apart from the hindering of the prompt despatch of Money Order Lists, the sending of Money Order Accounts and the early preparation of the yearly balance sheet, no re- laxation is allowed me to be on the alert to watch the fluctu- ations of Exchange so as to avoid losses where the transactions now have now increased from three quarters to a million of dollars a year; and, as pertinently put to me by an English Officer of one of the Regiments as to why accompetent Hindustani clerk is not engaged for which Mr. Moosa is qualified both in written and colloquial Urdu) an agitation may be put forth for the transfe- rence of the Indian Orders to the Base Post Office and thereby deprive the Colonial Government of the Commission that accrues to this Department which last year amounted to no more than $150 per month but now has increased to $550.
The sale of Money Orders and Postal Notes on the United Kingdom has also increased owing to the ad-
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