* Address reply to-"The Secretary, General Post Office,"
quoting Registered No. 450569
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GENERAL POST OFFICE, LONDON,
18th April 1902.
Sir,
The Postmaster General received in due course the letter from the Colonial Office of the 18th of January last, No. 271, enclosing a copy of a despatch from the Governor of Hong Kong relative to the sale of postage stamps at prices below their face value by foreign postal Agencies in China.
In reply I am to acquaint you, for the information of the Secretary of State for the Colonies, that on the receipt of full information from the Hong Kong Post Office as to the conditions under which the irregular sale of stamps was conducted in the foreign agencies strong representations were addressed by the Postmaster General to the French, German and Russian Post Offices. These representations were made in April last; but the settlement of the matter, involving repeated reference on the part of the Continental Post Offices to their Agencies in China, has naturally been somewhat protracted. Communications have, however, now been received from the French and German Post Offices expressing acquiescence in a proposal made by the Postmaster General for the adoption of a uniform rate in local currency throughout the Agencies in place of the varying scales hitherto in use; and this will place the sale of stamps on a proper basis so far as the French and German Agencies are concerned.
No arrangement with the Russian Post Office has yet been arrived at; but the Postmaster General is pressing that The Under Secretary of State
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