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? And F.O.

8/10

Wait another with

All

Address reply

quoting Registered No.

to "The Secretary, General Post Office,"

Trapsy

590.224/02.

Sir,

1762

GENERAL POST OFFICE, LONDON,

585

15 August 1903.

With reference to your letter of the 5th of this month,

No. 28171/1903, transmitting a copy of a despatch from the

Governor of Hong Kong on the subject of the proposed Parcel

Post Convention between that colony and the United States of

America, I am directed by the Postmaster General to acquaint

you, for the information of the Secretary of State for the

Colonies, that no objection is seen to the adoption of a

Convention based upon the existing agreement between the

Windward Islands and the United States, subject to the

alterations indicated by Sir H. Blake.

It may interest the Secretary of State to know that for

sea conveyance from Hong Kong to San Francisco the rate, if

fixed in accordance with the International Parcel Post

Convention, would be 3 francs per parcel. Hong Kong and the

United States are not, of course, parties to the International

Convention; and the arrangements for the conveyance of parcels

between them are, under article VIII of the proposed convention

Under Secretary of State,

Colonial Office.

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? And F.O. 14 8/10 Wait another with th All Address reply quoting Registered No. to "The Secretary, General Post Office," Trapsy 590.224/02. Sir, 1762 GENERAL POST OFFICE, LONDON, 585 15 August 1903. With reference to your letter of the 5th of this month, No. 28171/1903, transmitting a copy of a despatch from the Governor of Hong Kong on the subject of the proposed Parcel Post Convention between that colony and the United States of America, I am directed by the Postmaster General to acquaint you, for the information of the Secretary of State for the Colonies, that no objection is seen to the adoption of a Convention based upon the existing agreement between the Windward Islands and the United States, subject to the alterations indicated by Sir H. Blake. It may interest the Secretary of State to know that for sea conveyance from Hong Kong to San Francisco the rate, if fixed in accordance with the International Parcel Post Convention, would be 3 francs per parcel. Hong Kong and the United States are not, of course, parties to the International Convention; and the arrangements for the conveyance of parcels between them are, under article VIII of the proposed convention Under Secretary of State, Colonial Office. to

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? And F.O. 14 8/10 Wait another with th All Address reply quoting Registered No. to "The Secretary, General Post Coe," Trapsy 590.224/02. Sir, 1762 GENERAL POST OFFICE, LONDOS, 585 15 August 1903. With reference to your letter of the 5th of this month, No. 28171/1903, transmitting a copy of a despatch from the Governor of Hong Kong on the subject of the proposed Parcel Post Convention between that colony and the United States of America, I am directed by the Postmaster General to acquaint you, for the information of the Secretary of State for the Colonies, that no objection is seen to the adoption of a Convention based upon the existing agreement between the Windward Islands and the United States, subject to the alterations indicated by Sir H. Blake. It may interest the Secretary of State to know that for sea conveyance from Hong Kong to San Francisco the rate, if fixed in accordance with the International Parcel Post Convention, would be 3 francs per parcel. Hong Kong and the United States are not, of course, parties to the International Convention; and the arrangements for the conveyance of parcels between them are, under article VIII of the proposed convention Under Secretary of State, lonial Office. to

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