CO129-321 - Public Offices & Others - 1903 — Page 574

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Address reply to-"The Secretary, General Post Office,"

quoting Registered No. 835.151/03.

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Bac£ 23 JUL 031

GENERAL POST OFFICE, LONDON,

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July 1903.

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Sir,

With reference to your letter of the 13th instant, Voo

No. 24563, forwarding a copy of a despatch from the Governor

of Hong Kong dated the 27th of May last in regard to the

transmission of coin and bullion by post from British Post

Offices in China to the United Kingdom. I am directed by the

Postmaster General to acquaint you, for the information of

the Secretary of State, that the transmission by post to or

from the United Kingdom of parcels of coin or bullion exceed-

ing £5 in value is forbidden by Article 18 of the Foreign and

Colonial Parcel Post Warrant of 1901.

This restriction was introduced after full consideration

of the circumstances by this Department and His Majesty's

Treasury, mainly on account of the grave inconvenience and

risk incurred in the handling and custody of such parcels

in transit.

The Postmaster General thinks that any departure from

the existing regulation is undesirable; and he wishes me to

nder Secretary of State.

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COLONIAL OFFICE.