CO129-342 - Governor Lugard & Public Offices - 1907 [11-12] — Page 71

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was still experienced this Government would no longer maintain the Postal Service, British merchants would use the British Agency exclusively in order to prevent its abolition, since they have much more confidence in it as far as their important correspondence is concerned.

The objection to the proposal at (b) is that the Community at any Port might justly urge that they were called upon to pay not merely the expenditure upon their own Post Office but a share of the Military Contribution of this Colony. I think therefore that the proposal at (b) can only be adopted in conjunction with that at (a), in which case the majority of Agencies would not be called upon to make any contribution. It has as I have already reported to Your Lordship been adopted in the case of Tientsin where an experimental office was established, but I did not consider it just to call upon the Chamber of Commerce to make good the sum which is paid by this Government to the Military Contribution, and the Colonial Revenue thus continues to lose a sum of $1,020 on account of the Tientsin Agency. The incidence may be seen from the following:

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70was still experienced this Government would no longer maintain the Postal Service, British merchants would use the British Agency exclusively in order to prevent its abolition, since they have much more confidence in it as far as their important correspondence is concerned.The objection to the proposal at (b) is that the Community at any Port might justly urge that they were called upon to pay not merely the expenditure upon their own Post Office but a share of the Military Contribution of this Colony. I think therefore that the proposal at (b) can only be adopted in conjunction with that at (a), in which case the majority of Agencies would not be called upon to make any contribution. It has as I have already reported to Your Lordship been adopted in the case of Tientsin where an experimental office was established, but I did not consider it just to call upon the Chamber of Commerce to make good the sum which is paid by this Government to the Military Contribution, and the Colonial Revenue thus continues to lose a sum of $1,020 on account of the Tientsin Agency. The incidence may be seen from the following:Agencies

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70was still experienced this Government would no longer main-tain the Postal Service, British merchants would use the British Agency exclusively in order to prevent its aboli-tion, since they have much more confidence in it as far as their important correspondence is concerned.The objection to the proposal at (b) is that the Community at any Port might justly urge that they were called upon to pay not merely the expenditure upon their own Post Office but a share of the Military Contribution of this Colony. I think therefore that the proposal at (b) can only be adopted in conjunction with that at (a), in which case the majority of Agencies would not be called upon to make any contribution. It has as I have already reported to Your Lordship been adopted in the case of Tientsin where an experimental office was establish-ed, but I did not consider it just to call upon the Chamber of Commerce to make good the sum which is paid by this Government to the Military Contribution, and the Colonial Revenue thus continues to lose a sum of $1,020 on account of the Tientsin Agency. The incidence may be seen from the following:-Agencies

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was still experienced this Government would no longer main-

tain the Postal Service, British merchants would use the

British Agency exclusively in order to prevent its aboli-

tion, since they have much more confidence in it as far as

their important correspondence is concerned.

The objection to the proposal at (b)

is that the Community at any Port might justly urge that

they were called upon to pay not merely the expenditure

upon their own Post Office but a share of the Military

Contribution of this Colony. I think therefore that the

proposal at (b) can only be adopted in conjunction with

that at (a), in which case the majority of Agencies would

not be called upon to make any contribution. It has as I

have already reported to Your Lordship been adopted in the

case of Tientsin where an experimental office was establish-

ed, but I did not consider it just to call upon the Chamber

of Commerce to make good the sum which is paid by this

Government to the Military Contribution, and the Colonial

Revenue thus continues to lose a sum of $1,020 on account

of the Tientsin Agency. The incidence may be seen from the

following:-

Agencies

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