587
(
Treasury Man
140 p
28654/08
can be gathered from the Hong Kong Annual Estimates and the Annual Reports of the Colonial Postmaster General. Careful investigation of these documents is in progress, and the Postmaster General proposes at an early date to request the Colonial Office to procure for him the requisite supplementary information. He will also communicate with
the Foreign Office.
When this further information has been received
and examined, the Postmaster General proposes to formulate a provisional scheme for Their Lordships' approval, and to send an Officer of this Department out to China to super- vise the transfer.
3. In the meantime he understands that for the year ending 10th October 1909 the relief to the Colony in res- pect of the Agencies will, as already arranged, comprise
(a) Imperial Postal Contribution to Hong Hong Government £710;
(b) Imperial Postal Contribution personal to the Postmaster General of Hong Kong - £100;
(c) the amount of the ascertained deficit on the maintenance of the Tientsin Agency, to be paid as
to one half by the Imperial Post Office and as to the other by the Municipality.
4.
With regard to the period of approximately 15 months intervening between 10th October 1909 and 31st December 1910, assuming the 1st January next is accepted
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