CO129-354 - Public Offices & Others - 1908 — Page 41

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Mr. Churchill.The Hong Kong Government has for many years carried on the British postal agencies in China, and has hitherto derived from them a profit in which the British Government has not shared.

As will be seen from Sub-head D of the Post Office Estimates, it received a grant of £810 per annum from the British Government in respect of them, out of which £100 represents an allowance to the Colonial Postmaster General for increased responsibility. The British Municipal Council at Tientsin have guaranteed a sum of $7,500 to meet the anticipated deficit on the agency of that port during 1908, and under present arrangements any sum so paid would be treated as revenue for the purpose of assessing the Hong Kong military contribution. As I informed the honourable Member for Stretford on 12th March the question of the maintenance of these agencies is, however, under consideration. [26th March, 1908.)

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