CO129-332 - Public Offices & Others - 1905 — Page 287

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

quoting Registered No. 163208/03.

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GENERAL POST OFFICE, JONDONS

19

May 1905.

Sir.

I am directed to acknowlelge the receipt of your letter

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of the 10th of this month, No. 14749/1905, enclosing a copy of a despatch from the Governor of Hong Kong on the subject of a Postal Arrangement which has been concluded between that

Colony and Chim, and to request that you will be so good as

to express to the Secretary of State for the Colonies the

Postmaster General's regret that no reply was sent to the

previous letters concerning this arrangement. the file of

papers on the subject having been unfortunately mis laid.

The advantages of concluding with the Chinese authorities

an agreement on the lines of the Franco-Chinese Agreement

were urged by this office upon the Hong Kong Post Office some

time ago; and the Postmaster General is glad to learn that

such an arrangement has now been arrived at.

With reference to the application, by this Arrangement,

of various provisions of the Postal Convention of Washington,

it will of course be borne in mind that the next Congress

nder Secretary of State.

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COLONIAL OFFICE.